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PÂTIMOKKHA.
here, Sir, long enough. If that Bhikkhu, when thus spoken to by the Bhikkhus should persist as before, that Bhikkhu should be (formally) adjured by the Bhikkhus as a body, even to the third time, to the end that he abandon that course. If, while being so adjured, up to the third time, he abandon that course, it is well: if he abandon it not-that is a Samghâdisesa.
Venerable Sirs, the thirteen matters which require, as well in their earlier as in their later stages, formal meetings of the Order, have been recited; nine which become offences at once, and four which are not completed until the third admonition.
If a Bhikkhu have committed either one or other of these ?, for as many days as he knowingly conceals his sin, for so many days must that Bhikkhu, even against his will, remain in probation. When the probation is over, that Bhikkhu must, for six further days, undergo the Mânatta discipline 3 (Penance). When the Penance has been removed, that Bhikkhu must be reinstated in some place where the community of the Bhikkhus forms a body of twenty. If a community of Bhikkhus forming a body of less than twenty, even by one, should reinstate that Bhikkhu, he is not reinstated, and that community is blameworthy. This is the proper course in that case.
1 Literally, of which. In the text there should be no full stop after yâvatatiyaka.
: On the regulations respecting Parivâsa (Probation), see Kullavagga II, 1-3.
3 On the regulations respecting Mânatta (Penance), see Kullavagga II, 6-8.
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| SR No. | 007684 |
| Book Title | Vinaya Texts |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | T W Rhys Davids, Hermann Oldenberg |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1881 |
| Total Pages | 2523 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 47 MB |