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XII, 2, 4.
ON THE COUNCIL OF VESÂLİ.
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'Even so, Sirs,' said the venerable Uttara, in assent to the Vaggian Bhikkhus of Vesâlt. And he went to Revata, and told him what they had said.
'Thou urgest me, O Bhikkhu, to that which is against the Dhamma,' said the Thera, and sent away the venerable Uttara 1.
And the Vaggian Bhikkhus of Vesâlt said to the venerable Uttara: 'What, friend Uttara, did the Thera say?'
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'It is an evil you have wrought me, Sirs. The Thera has sent me away, saying, "Thou urgest me, O Bhikkhu, to what is against the Dhamma." Are you not, Sir, of full age, of twenty years (since your upasampada)?'
'Yes, Sirs, I am.'
'Then do we take the nissaya under you as your pupils 2.'
4. Now the Samgha met together with the intention of deciding the legal question. And the venerable Revata laid a resolution before the Samgha, saying,
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'Let the venerable Samgha hear me. were to settle this question, it might be that those Bhikkhus who had at first taken the matter in hand might raise it again. If it seem meet to the Samgha, let the Samgha settle it at that place where it arose.'
1 Panâmesi. That is, permanently from attendance upon him. Compare Mahâvagga I, 27, 2, where the word is used of the formal dismissal or turning away of a pupil.
Garu-nissayam gan hâma; on which Buddhaghosa has nothing, though the phrase does not occur elsewhere in the Khandhakas.
* Compare the 63rd Pâkittiya.
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