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KULLAVAGGA.
X, 19, 3.
ones approves thereof, let her keep silence. Whosoever approves not thereof, let her speak.
""N. N. is deputed by the Samgha to make the Pavâranâ invitation on behalf of the Bhikkhuntsamgha before the Bhikkhu-samgha. The Samgha approves thereof. Therefore is it silent. Thus do I understand."
3. When that Bhikkhuni has been deputed, she, accompanied by the Bhikkhun-samgha, is to go before the Bhikkhu-samgha, arrange her robe over one shoulder, bow down before the Bhikkhus, and sitting on her heels, to stretch forth her joined palms, and say: "The Bhikkhuni-samgha invites the Bhikkhu-samgha (to point out to them any faults they may have committed) in respect of things heard, or seen, or suspected. May the Bhikkhu-samgha speak to the Bhikkhunf-samgha (if there be anything wherein they have offended) out of compassion toward them. Then will they, if they perceive the offence, confess the same. And a second time the Bhikkhunf-samgha . . . . . . (the whole repeated]. And a third time . . . . . . [the whole repeated]'."
20. Now at that time Bhikkhunts inhibited Bhikkhus from the Uposatha, or from the Pavaranà, or from the Exhortation, or issued commands to them, or asked them to give them leave to rebuke them, or warned them of some offence they supposed they
1 This, of course, is the same form that each separate member of the Order uses before his or her own Samgha. Compare our notes above on the corresponding passage in the Mahavagga, IV, 1, 4.
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