Text of Confucianism Part 02

SR No.: 007676
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Legge
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1882
Total Pages: 2405
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 43 MB

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KULLAVAGGA.
IX, 3, 3.
And which are the nine kinds of inhibition of the Pâtimokkha which are illegal .... legal ? [The same as the six, adding for each kind of offence, “the offence being one both of omission and of commission.")
"And which are the ten kinds of inhibition of the Pâtimokkha which are illegal ? When (a Bhikkhu) who has been guilty of a Pârâgika is not seated in that assembly 1,—when no discussion is still going on in the assembly) as to a Pârâgika offence (supposed to have been committed by a Bhikkhu then present),— when (a Bhikkhu) who has abandoned the precepts ? is not seated in that assembly,—when no discussion is still going on in the assembly) in respect of (a Bhikkhu then present having been charged with) abandoning the precepts,—when (the person charged) submits himself to the legally prescribed concord (of the assembly)',
—when (the person charged) does not withdraw his acceptance of the legally prescribed concord (of the assembly) *,—when no discussion is still going on (in the assembly) in respect of the withdrawal of (any member's) acceptance of the legally (prescribed) concord (of the assembly),—when (the Bhikkhu charged) has not been suspected of an offence against morality, nor seen (to have committed one), nor heard (to have committed one), .... of an offence against conduct — .... of an
1 This and the following phrase are further enlarged upon in $ 4 and the following sections.
? See our note on Mahâvagga II, 22, 3. 3 See Mahâvagga X, 5, 13, &c.
• Pakkâdîyati. Buddhaghosa says here, pakkâdîyatî ti puna kâtabbam kammam pakkâdîyati. Tena ukkotanake pâkittiyam âpaggati.
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