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pardon now after having treated them scornfully overnight.' .
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
Bhikkhus are not, O Bhikkhus, to receive the confessions of a fault from Bhikkhunts. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata. I allow Bhikkhunts, O Bhikkhus, to receive the confession of a fault from Bhikkhunts.
The Bhikkhunis did not know how to receive the confession of a fault. They told this matter to the Blessed One.
I allow Bhikkhus, O Bhikkhus, to tell Bhikkhunts how to receive the confession of a fault.'
3. Now at that time disciplinary proceedings (Kam mas) were not carried out against Bhikkhunts. They told that matter to the Blessed One.
I allow disciplinary proceedings, O Bhikkhus, to be carried out against Bhikkhunis.'
Then the Bhikkhus thought : 'By whom ought disciplinary proceedings to be carried out against Bhikkhunis ?' They told this matter to the Blessed One.
'I allow Bhikkhus, O Bhikkhus, to carry out disciplinary proceedings against Bhikkhunis.'
Now at that time Bhikkhunts who had been subjected to disciplinary proceedings, on seeing a Bhikkhu on the road, or in a street closed at one end, or at the place where four cross-roads met, would place their bowls on the ground, and arranging their robes over one shoulder, would crouch down on their heels, and stretching out their joined palms would ask for pardon, thinking that that was the proper time for doing so. The people murmured (&c., as before].
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