Cullavagga - Third Khandhaka: Chapter 35

1. 'And in case, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu is guilty of a number of Samghâdisesa
offences--definite, and not definite--of one designation, and of various
designations--similar to each other, and dissimilar--connected with each other,
and disconnected 1. He asks the Samgha for an inclusive probation on account of
those offences 2. The Samgha imposes upon him an inclusive probation on account
of those offences. He undergoing that probation is guilty meanwhile of a number
of Samghâdisesa offences, definite ones, which he does not conceal. He asks the
Samgha to throw him back on account of those intervening offences to the
commencement (of his term of probation). The Samgha [does so] by a lawful
proceeding that cannot be quashed 3, and fit
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for the occasion; and it also imposes a Mânatta upon him, but by an unlawful
proceeding, and then by an unlawful proceeding rehabilitates him. That Bhikkhu,
O Bhikkhus, is not purified from those offences.
And in case, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu is guilty of a number of Samghâdisesa
offences--definite, and not definite--of one designation, and of various
designations--similar to each other, and dissimilar--connected with each other,
and disconnected. And he asks the Samgha for an inclusive probation on account
of those offences. The Samgha imposes upon him an inclusive probation on account
of those offences. He undergoing that probation is guilty meanwhile of a number
of Samghâdisesa offences, definite ones, which he does conceal. He asks the
Samgha to throw him back on account of those intervening offences to the
commencement (of his term of probation). The Samgha [does so] by a lawful
proceeding that cannot be quashed, and fit for the occasion; and it also imposes
upon him an inclusive probation by a lawful proceeding, and imposes upon him a
Mânatta, but by an unlawful proceeding, and by an unlawful proceeding it
rehabilitates him. That Bhikkhu, O Bhikkhus, is not purified from those
offences.'
[The same decision is given if, of the intervening offences, all of which are
definite, some have been concealed, and some not concealed.]
2. [The same if the intervening offences have been not definite and not
concealed, or not definite and concealed, or all not definite but some concealed
and some not concealed, or, all not concealed but some definite and some not
definite, or all concealed
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but some definite and some not definite, or some definite and some not definite
and some concealed and some not concealed.]
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Here end the nine principal cases (which serve as
a basis for the variations in the following
chapter) in which a Bhikkhu is not
purified (by undergoing a
term of probation).




Footnotes
435:1 See chap. 33 for this list.
435:2 In accordance with the rule laid down in chap. 28, which shows that by 'a
Bhikkhu' must be understood 'a Bhikkhu who is under probation;' and the offences
he has committed must have been concealed by him.
435:3 Akuppa. The technical term kammam kopeti is not to revoke the valid
decision of a kamma regularly held, but to show that the kamma by reason of some
irregularity was no real kamma, and its whole proceedings therefore void. One
may compare akuppâ me keto-vimutti spoken by the Buddha immediately after he had
attained Nirvâna under the Bo Tree (Ariyapariyosâna Sutta in H. O.'s 'Buddha,'
p. 429) and the opposite idea in Sutta Nipâta IV, 3, 5.