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KULLAVAGGA.
IV, 14, 25.
end, as to the appointment of a taker of the voting tickets). By that Bhikkhu, the taker of the voting tickets, are the votes to be collected. And according as the larger number of Bhikkhus who are guided by the Dhamma shall speak, so shall the case be decided. This, O Bhikkhus, is called a legal question that has been settled.
And how has it been settled ? By the Proceeding in Presence and by the vote of the majority. And what herein is meant by Proceeding in Presence? The presence of the Samgha, and the presence of the Dhamma, and the presence of the Vinaya, and the presence of the particular person. And of these, what is the presence of the Samgha? (&c., as in § 16, down to) That is the presence in such a matter of the particular person.
And what herein is meant by the vote of the majority? The carrying out of, the accomplishment of, the proceeding by, the undertaking of, the acceptance of, the pacification by the official act (the Kamma) by the vote of the majority'. That is what is meant herein by the vote of the majority.
'When a legal question, O Bhikkhus, has been thus settled, if a disputant re-open the question, such re-opening is a Pâkittiya. If one who has conveyed his consent complain of the decision, such complaint is a Pâkittiya?'
25. Now at that time a certain legal question had arisen in such and such a manner, and had grown up in such and such a manner at Sâvatthi. And those
1 This sentence is also used of the other modes of settlement below, $$ 27, 29.
2 So also above, $ 16; and below, $$ 27-29.
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