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THE SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES.
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it about that the proper way of putting the legal question (the point at issue) has been settled, the Bhikkhus dwelling in that residence should undertake that legal question. And then the Bhikkhus dwelling in that residence should be addressed, O Bhikkhus, by the incoming Bhikkhus thus: “We inform you, Sirs, how this legal question arose and how it was carried on. If you, Sirs, are able in such and such a time to settle this legal question according to the Dhamma, and according to the Vinaya, and according to the teaching of the Master, then will we entrust this legal question to you. But if you, Sirs, should not be able to do so, then will we ourselves retain the custody of the case.” Thus, O Bhikkhus, is that legal question to be entrusted by the incoming Bhikkhus to the Bhikkhus dwelling in that residence, causing them duly to accept it. If those Bhikkhus, O Bhikkhus, are able to settle the case, that, О Bhikkhus, is called a settlement of the legal question. And how has it been settled? (&c., as in last paragraph of $ 16, down to the end.)
19. 'If, O Bhikkhus, whilst the case is being enquired into by those Bhikkhus, pointless speeches are brought forth, and the sense of any single utterance is not clear?, I enjoin upon you, O Bhikkhus, to settle the case by referring it (to a jury or commission)
1 Ettakena vâ antarena, on which Buddhaghosa has nothing. On va = eva, see Böhtlingk-Roth s. v. vâ, No. 4.
. These words recur at XII, 2, 7, where an instance occurs of the mode of proceeding here laid down.
: Ubbâhikaya. Childers has quite misunderstood both the meaning and the derivation of this term. It must be derived
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