Vinaya Texts

SR No.: 007684
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

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PÂTIMOKKHA.
If, while being so admonished, up to the third time, he abandon that course, it is well. If he abandon it not—that is a Påkittiya?.
69. Whatsoever Bhikkhu, knowing him to be so, shall eat in company with, or dwell together with 2, or sleep in one place with a Bhikkhu who talks thus (as in 68), and has not been dealt with according to the law 3, and has not laid aside his delusion—that is a Pâkittiya.
70. If a Sâmanera 4 even should say thus: 'In this wise do I understand that the Dhamma has been proclaimed by the Blessed One: that to him who cultivates those Qualities which have been called " dangerous” by the Blessed One there is not sufficient danger (to prevent his attaining to spiritual gifts);' then that Sâmanera should be addressed by the Bhikkhus thus: 'Say not so, good Sâmanera ! Bear not false witness against the Blessed One. For neither is it seemly to bring a false accusation against the Blessed One, nor could the Blessed One speak so. By many a figure, good Sâmanera, have the
1 This rule is directed against the delusion that sin, to a very holy man, loses its danger and its sinfulness. Compare the 4th Samghâdisesa; and, on the method of procedure here laid down, the roth to the 13th Samghâdisesas. At Kullavagga I, 32 lust is declared to be an antarâ yiko dhammo; and falsehood another at Mahavagga II, 3, 3. The Samanta-Pâsâdikâ (quoted by Minayeff, p. 92) gives five divisions of these dangerous qualities.'
This the Vibhanga explains as holding Uposatha, or Pavâranâ, or a Samghakamma with him.
8 Ukkhitto anosârito, says the Vibhanga. Compare Mahavagga IX, 4, 10, 11.
4 Samanuddeso; which is explained by the Old Commentary as equal to Sâmanera. Why, in the Pâtimokkha, now one and now the other expression should be used, is not clear. In the later texts Sâmanera is the usual form, but samanuddeso is found also in a few passages.
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