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KULLAVAGGA.
VI, 18, 1.
becomes the owner —if he then admits that he is mad, or that his mind is unhinged, or that he is afflicted with bodily pain, or that he has been suspended for his refusal to acknowledge an offence, or to atone for an offence, or to renounce a sinful doctrine, it (the office and its privileges) is still his—if he then admits that he is a eunuch, or that he has furtively attached himself to the Samgha, or that he has gone over to the Titthiyas; or that he is an animal, or that he has murdered his mother, or his father, or an Arahat, or that he has violated a Bhikkhuni, or that he has caused a schism in the Samgha, or that he has shed (a Buddha's) blood, or that he is an hermaphrodite, then the Samgha becomes the owner.'
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I. Now at that time the Bhikkhus made use elsewhere of beds which were appurteñances to the Vihara of a certain lay-disciple (u pâ'saka).
Then that upâsaka murmured, &c. They told the matter to the Blessed One. • Things appurtenant to one place are not, O Bhikkhus, to be used in another. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata.'
Now at that time the Bhikkhus, fearing to offend if they took (things to sit upon) even into the
1 That is, the navakammiko loses his privileges (his lien on the best sleeping-place, &c.).
• Vihara-paribhogam. "Meant for use only in that Vihara.' Compare above, VI, 14, 1.
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