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.
I, 18, 6.
converted.' And after he had rebuked him, and had delivered a religious discourse, he addressed the Bhikkhus, and said : 'Let therefore the Samgha, O Bhikkhus, carry out the Patisâraniya-kamma (Act of Reconciliation)' against the Bhikkhu Sudhamma, saying, “You are to ask and obtain pardon of Kitta the householder.”)
6. Now thus, O Bhikkhus, should it be carried out. In the first place the Bhikkhu Sudhamma ought to be warned: when he has been warned, he ought to be reminded (of the Rule in the Pâtimokkha against which he has offended); when he has been reminded, he ought to be charged with the offence; when he has been charged with the offence, some discreet and able Bhikkhu ought to lay the matter before the Samgha, saying,
("Let the venerable Samgha hear me. This Bhikkhu Sudhamma has put down, and has lowered by censure Kitta the householder, a man of faith, a believing disciple, a donor, provider and supporter of the Samgha. If the time is fit for the Samgha to do so, let the Samgha carry out the Patisâraniya-kamma against the Bhikkhu Sudhamma.
““This is the motion (ñatti).
* Childers proposes doubtingly to derive the word Palisaraniya from the root smar; but that that is impossible is probably sufficiently evident from the meaning of the word, which is quite clear from the context of this, and from the following chapters. Now at p. 530 of the Lalita Vistara the common Pâli phrase sammodanîyam katham sârâniyam vîtisâretvâ is represented by the Sanskrit sammodanih samrañganih kathâh kritva. It is by no means impossible that this parallel may offer the true solution of the etymology of the Pâli words in question; (compare Sârâga as equal to samrâga, sâratta to samrakta, &c. &c.) Patisâraniya would then be equal to pratisamrañganîya. See Senart, Mahâvagga, p. 599.
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