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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RULLAVAGGA.
I, 2, 1.
been carried out without justice 1—when it has been carried out without the presence and approval of all the Bhikkhus belonging to the particular circuit ? A Tagganiya-kamma, O Bhikkhus, characterised by these three things is (&c., as before, down to settled.
*There are other three things, O Bhikkhus, by which, when a Tagga niya-kamma has been characterised, it is against the Dhamma, and against the Vinaya, and difficult to be settled; (that is to say), when it has been carried out without the accused person having been heard—when it has been carried out without justice—when it has been carried out without the presence and approval of all the Bhikkhus belonging to the circuit. A Tagganiya-kamma, O Bhikkhus, characterised by these three things is (&c., as before, down to settled.
There are other three things (&c., as before, down to) that is to say, when it has been carried out without the accused person having been convicted—when it has been carried out without justice—when it has been carried out without the presence and approval of all the Bhikkhus belonging to the circuit.'
[And in a similar way each of the three things in paragraphs 2 and 3 of this section are united with the two things just repeated in each of paragraphs 4, 5, and 6, to make six further cases in which a Tagganiya-kamma is declared to be against the Dhamma, and against the Vinaya, and difficult to be revoked.]
Here end the twelve cases of a proceeding (Kamma)
which is against the law.
* Adhammena; perhaps 'contrary to the Rules.'
* Vaggena for vi +aggena, the opposite of samaggena. See our note on the 21st Pakittiya, and Mahavagga IX, 3, 5.
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