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XULLAVAGGA.
XII, 1, 2.
I have no due portion in that money. I do not allow any money to be given to me.'
2. Then the Vaggian Bhikkhus of Vesålt said one to another: 'This brother, Yasa, the son of Kakandaka, upbraids and reviles, and renders dissatisfied believing and faithful followers. Come, let us carry out against him the Act of Reconciliation ".' And they did so.
Then the venerable Yasa, the son of Kakandaka, said to them : 'It has been laid down, Sirs, by the Blessed One, that a companion shall be appointed to go as messenger with a Bhikkhu against whom the Act of Reconciliation has been carried out? Appoint, Sirs, a Bhikkhu, as companion messenger to me. And the Vaggian Bhikkhus of Vesali deputed a Bhikkhu to that work, and gave him as a companion messenger to the venerable Yasa.
And the venerable Yasa, taking the companion Bhikkhu with him, entered into Vesali, and said to the believing laymen there:
'I am said, Sirs, to be upbraiding and reviling, and rendering dissatisfied believing and faithful followers, thereby that I have said what is against the Dhamma to be against the Dhamma, and what is Dhamma to be Dhamma, and what is against the Vinaya to be against the Vinaya, and what is Vinaya to be Vinaya.
3. Now the Blessed One was once, Sirs, staying at Sâvatthi in the Getavana, Anatha Pindika's pleasure-ground. And there, Sirs, the Blessed One exhorted the Bhikkhus, and said:
" Patisâraniya-kamma. See Kullavagga I, 18. ? On Anuduta, see Kullavagga I, 20–22.
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