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KULLAVAGGA.
IV, 14, 33.
ceeding thereafter make complaint thereof, that is a Pakittiya.
33. 'If one should ask, “ Can it be that a legal question arising out of offence, without recourse being had to the one mode of settlement-to wit, the Proceeding on confession of guilt-may be settled by the other two modes—to wit, by the Proceeding in Presence, and by the Proceeding by covering over as with grass ?” he should be told, “Yes, it can.” If he should say, “How may that be?" the answer should be as follows:
'If while the Bhikkhus are continuing in quarrels (&c., as in chapter 13,89 1, 2, and 3, down to the end).
*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 Proceeding by the covering over as with grass.
"And what therein belongs to the Proceeding in Presence? The presence (&c., as in 916, down to) And what therein is the presence of the particular person? He who confesses, and he to whom the confession is made, both are present. This is the presence of the particular individual in such a case.
And what therein belongs to the Proceeding by covering over as with grass ? The carrying out of, the accomplishment of, the proceeding by, the performance of, the acceptance of, the pacification of the official act (the Kamma) by the Proceeding by covering over as with grass. That is what belongs therein to the Proceeding by covering over as with grass.
1 This refers to the technical term of the Proceeding in question, tinavatthara kena deseyyam (IV, 13, 2); and the singular of course includes the plural, as the confession usually took place before a number of Bhikkhus.
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