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MAHÂVAGGA.
IX, 4, 3.
the fourth, . . . , in which a person against whom the Samgha institutes a proceeding is the fourthis no real act and ought not to be performed.'
End of the regulations about acts performed by
four persons.
3-5. 'An official act, О Bhikkhus, which requires the presence of five (.... ten, .... twenty) persons, if performed by a congregation in which a Bhikkhuni, &c.1, is the fifth (.... tenth, .... twentieth), is no real act and ought not to be performed.'
End of the regulations about acts performed by
five, (ten, twenty) persons.
6. If, O Bhikkhus, a congregation in which a person sentenced to the parivâsa discipline ? is the fourth, institutes the proceedings of parivâsa, of malâ ya patikassanâ, and of mânatta, or if a congregation in which such a person is the twentieth, confers abbhâna, this is no real act and ought not to be performed.
'If, O Bhikkhus, a congregation in which a person that ought to be sentenced to malâ ya patikassana . . . . that ought to be sentenced to mânatta .... that is subject to the mânatta discipline ....
· Here the enumeration of § 2 is repeated.
? See about parivâsa, and the other Samgha kammas referred to in this paragraph, the details given in the second book of the
·
Kullavagga.
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