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Samgha hear me. There are certain of our precepts which relate to matters in which the laity are concerned. Now the laity know of us that "such and such things are proper for you Samanas who are Sakyaputtiyas, and such and such things are not." If we were to revoke the lesser and minor precepts, it will be said to us: A set of precepts was laid down for his disciples by the Samana Gotama to endure until the smoke should rise from his funeral pyre'. So long as their teacher remained with these men, so long did they train themselves in the precepts. Since their teacher has passed away from them, no longer do they now train themselves in the precepts.'
'If the time seems meet to the Samgha, not ordaining what has not been ordained, and not revoking what has been ordained, let it take upon itself and ever direct itself in the precepts according as they have been laid down. This is the resolution.
KULLAVAGGA.
'Let the venerable Samgha hear me. [These things being so'] the Samgha takes upon itself the precepts according as they have been laid down. Whosoever of the venerable ones approves thereof, let him keep silence. Whosoever approves not thereof, let him speak. The Samgha has taken upon itself the precepts according as they were laid down. Therefore does it keep silence. Thus
do I understand.'
10. Now the Thera Bhikkhus said to the vener
1 Dhamakâlikam. See our note above on VI, 17, 1. Buddhaghosa says here, Dhûmakâlikan ti yâva samanassa Gotamassa parinibbana-kitika-dhûmo paññâyati tâvakâlo ti attho.
The whole repeated.
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