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PÂTIMOKKHA.
PÂTIDESANIYÅ DHAMMÂ.
RULES REGARDING MATTERS WHICH OUGHT TO BE
CONFESSED. Here, venerable Sirs, the four rules regarding matters which ought to be confessed come into recitation.
1. Whatsoever Bhikkhu, when a Bhikkhuni not related to him has entered within the houses", shall, with his own hand, accept at her hands food, either hard or soft, and eat or enjoy it—that is a matter which ought to be confessed by that Bhikkhu, saying, 'I have fallen, Brethren, into a blameworthy offence, unbecoming, which ought to be confessed; and I confess it!'
2. Now Bhikkhus, when they have been invited to laymen's houses, eat. If the Bhikkhuni stay there giving directions, saying, 'Here give curry, give rice here !' the Bhikkhuni ought to be rebuked by those Bhikkhus, saying, 'Stand aside, Sister, as long as the Bhikkhus are eating! If it should not occur to a single Bhikkhu to rebuke the Bhikkhuni, saying,
Stand aside, Sister, as long as the Bhikkhus are eating !'--that is a matter that ought to be confessed by those Bhikkhus, saying, 'We have fallen, Brethren, into a blameworthy offence, unbecoming, which ought to be confessed; and we confess it!'
3. Whatsoever Bhikkhu shall accept, with his
1 Antaragharam pavitthâ; that is, during her alms-visit to the village. Compare the 3rd Sekhiya; Mahâvagga I, 23, 3; and Kullavagga VIII, 5, 2.
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