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: fault confessed en bloc is severer than that of the same fault confessed.
in detail (infra 152 f.). ... These provisions recall those made by the Buddhists : the pātimokkha
can be recited in five ways. In cases of danger, and then only, the
Buddha permits its recitation in summary (Vin I 112 f.; compare 168). - 145
The duration and the time of the confession vary according to whe. ther it is global or detailed, and according to the type of confession in question.
If it is global, it takes place in a single day (which is obvious from its very nature - either there is little to confess or there is little time in which to confess). It takes place towards mealtime, and therefore by day only, since the religious do not eat at night. . If it is detailed, it can possibly be finished in one day, or it can spread over several days. It can even be made at night, because some.
times the faults are numerous, and sometimes the confessor or the one ...confessing, fully occupied by his duties in the company, has little time at bis disposal :
ohe egadivasiyā, vibhāgato nega egadivasā u
rattim pi divasato vā vibhagato, ohato divasam ...(Bh 1, 53 = Nis Bh 6 315).
In general, no account is taken of the propitious or uopropiti; us nature of the day (cf. Bh 1, 54). This is never considered when the con. : fession is made en bloc, in view of the special circumstances which have
made it necessary and the essential proximity of the meal (bhāyān na prasastúprasasta-dina-cintā, vibhāgataḥ punar asti, Ţ Il 18 a 12). The first two confessions (vihār’al., uvasampayâl.) can also be made on an unpropitious day or night, without the least irregularity or disadvantage (doşâbhāvat) - as the ancient teachers permitted,
On the contrary, the "confession of offences" in detail, "on the order of the Jina",2 is carefully surrounded with auspicious circumstances (T II : 18 b 2 ff.). Thus it must take place only on a propitious day or night.3
Whatever the type of confession, the religious recites his offences in an invariable order (Vay Bh 1, 55; 57; 119 = Nis Bh 6 316; 6 318; 6 376): · first, those contrary to the fundamental merits (mula-guna), then those against the additional merits (uttara-guna), and then, the case being, his
relations with lax religious and failures in his attempts to master himself. 1. tathā pūrva-sūribhir anujñātatvät, 7 11 18 6 1, repeated in 20 b 9. . . 2. esa jin'ājñā ? 11 20 b 11... . 3. aparādh' alocanā vibhāgato diyamānā ... prasasta eva divase rătrau vā bhavati, ibid
3-4, ad Bh 1, 54 b; and cf, infra 150.. ... .. .. ......
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