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IV, 11, 1.
THE SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES.
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or probably may be in the majority-when he knows that the voting will result in a schism in the Samgha-when he is in doubt whether the voting will result in a schism in the Samgha-when the votes are irregularly given 2—when all do not vote equally 3—and when they do not vote in accordance with the view (which they really hold). These are the ten cases in which the voting is invalid
2. “And which are the ten cases in which the voting is valid ?'
[The ten cases are precisely the reverse of the other ten.]
11. 1. Now at that time the Bhikkhu U vála', being examined in the midst of the Samgha with an offence, when he had denied then confessed it, when he had confessed it then denied it, made
* App eva nama. That this phrase does not merely mean perhaps'is clear from its use in § 2.
* Adhammena ganhanti ti adhammavadino evam mayam baha bhavissâmâ ti dve dve salâkâyo ganhanti. (S. P.)
* On vagga, here = vi + agga, compare our note on the 21st Påkittiya, and Kullavagga I, 2, 1. Buddhaghosa here says, Vaggå ganhanti ti dve dhammavadino ekam dhammavâdisalákam ganhanti evam dhammavadino na bahů bhavissanti ti maññamâna.
• With this chapter the 26th section of chapter 14 should be compared, where very curious means are inculcated for avoiding some of the votes here stated to be invalid.
* In the Burmese MSS. the name of this monk is written Upavala.
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