1. Now at that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus carried out official acts against
Bhikkhus who had not confessed themselves guilty--the Tagganiya-kamma, or the
Nissaya-kamma, or the Pabbâganiya-kamma, or the Patisâraniya-kamma, or the
Ukkhepaniya-kamma.
Those Bhikkhus who were moderate were annoyed, murmured, and became indignant,
saying, 'How can the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus (etc., as before).' And those Bhikkhus
told the matter to the Blessed One.
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'Is it true, O Bhikkhus, that the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus do so?'
'It is true, Lord.'
Then he rebuked them, and when he had delivered a religious discourse, he
addressed the Bhikkhus, and said:
No official act, O Bhikkhus,--whether the Tagganiya-kamma, or the Nissaya-kamma,
or the Pabbâganiya-kamma, or the Patisâraniya-kamma, or the
Ukkhepaniya-kamma,--is to be carried out against Bhikkhus who have not confessed
themselves guilty 1. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata offence.'
Footnotes
23:1 The mode in which such a confession ought to be made is set out in full in
IV, 14, 30-34.
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