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KULLAVAGGA.
IV, 2, 1.
delivered a religious discourse, he addressed the Bhikkhus, and said : 'The formal Acts, O Bhikkhus, the Tagganiya-, the Nissaya-, the Pabbâganiya-, the Patisâraniya., and the Ukkhepaniya-kammas, ought not to be carried out against Bhikkhus who are not present. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata offence.'
1. The single Bhikkhu who speaks not in accordance with the right, the many who speak not in accordance with the right, the Samgha which speaks not in accordance with the right. The single Bhikkhu who speaks in accordance with the right, the many who speak in accordance with the right, the Samgha which speaks in accordance with the right?
Now (it may happen that) the one Bhikkhu who speaks not in accordance with the right may point out (the right course) to a single Bhikkhu who speaks in accordance with the right, or gives him to understand what it is?, or urges him to see or consider the matter in that lights, or teaches him, or
1 This short enumeration of the different categories occurring in the subsequent paragraphs is quite in the style of the Abhidhamma texts, in which such lists are accustomed to be called mâtika; compare the expression matika-dharo as applied to a learned Bhikkhu in the stock phrase at Mahavagga X, 2, 1; Kullavagga I, II; IV, 14, 25, &c.
? The Samanta Pâsâdiká here says: nigghâpetîti yatha so tam attham nigghayati oloketi evam karoti.
* Pekkheti anupekkhetiti yatha so tam attham pekkhati Keva punappunañ ka pekkhati evam karoti. (Samanta Påsâdika.)
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