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KULLAVAGGA.
IV, 14, 15.
*And of these, which is an offence (Â patti) which is not subject of a legal question ? Conversion, higher attainment (sot-âpatti, sam- âpatti), these are âpattis which are not subjects of a legal question '. These are âpattis not subjects of a legal question.
And of these, what is the legal question where there is no offence? A legal question of official duty, a legal question of censure, a legal question of dispute. These are legal questions where there may be no offence.
'And of these, which is the case in which there is both a legal question and an offence too? A legal question regarding an offence is a case in which there is both a legal question and an offence too.
15. Official duty which is subject of a legal question of business. Duty and no legal question. Legal question and no duty. Legal question and duty too. “There may be [each of these four].
Of these, which is official duty which is subject of a legal question? Whatsoever is to the Samgha a thing which ought to be done, an obligation, a matter for which leave ought to be formally asked, the proposal of a resolution, the proceeding by ñ atti-dutiya-kamma, or by ñatti-katutthakamma, that is official duty which may be the subject of a legal question of business.
* This is merely a play upon words. Âpatti is literally “attainment to. Standing alone it is always used with the connotation of attainment to guilt, sin, offence, so that its etymological meaning is always lost sight of. Sotâpatti is the attainment to,' the "entering upon the stream, that is, the course of the Excellent Way. The Samâpattis, literally, 'complete, or higher, attain. ments,' are eight successive states of ecstatic insight or meditation practised by Arahats and other men of advanced spiritual culture. The question stated is in fact a riddle, like so many of the questions stated in the Parivara and the Puggala-paññatti.
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