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Sunday, March 27, 2011

Cullavagga - Fourth Khandhaka: Chapter 3

3.
[This chapter is the contrary of the last; the cases put being those in which
the three last members of
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the mâtikâ in the first paragraph of chapter 2 instruct, etc., the three first
members.]
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End of the nine cases in which the right side decides.

Cullavagga - Fourth Khandhaka: Chapter 2

1. The single Bhikkhu who speaks not in accordance with the right, the many who
speak not in accordance with the right, the Samgha which speaks not in
accordance with the right. The single Bhikkhu who speaks in accordance with the
right, the many who speak in accordance with the right, the Samgha which speaks
in accordance with the right 1
Now (it may happen that) the one Bhikkhu who speaks not in accordance with the
right may point out (the right course) to a single Bhikkhu who speaks in
accordance with the right, or gives him to understand what it is 2, or urges him
to see or consider the matter in that light 3, or teaches him, or
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instructs him, saying, 'This is the Dhamma, this the Vinaya, this the teaching
of the Master. Accept this, and approve this.' If the dispute should be thus
settled, it is settled contrary to the Dhamma, and with a mere counterfeit of
the Vinaya rule of procedure (that cases of dispute must be settled before a
duly constituted meeting of the Samgha, and in the presence of the accused
person) 1.
[And in like manner, if he instruct the many, or the Samgha, who speak according
to the right;--or if the many or the Samgha who speak not according to the right
instruct the one, or the many, or the Samgha who speak according to the
right;-then the dispute is settled contrary to the Dhamma (&c., as before).]
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End of the nine cases in which the wrong side decides.




Footnotes
2:1 This short enumeration of the different categories occurring in the
subsequent paragraphs is quite in the style of the Abhidhamma texts, in which
such lists are accustomed to be called mâtikâ; compare the expression
mâtikâ-dharo as applied to a learned Bhikkhu in the stock phrase at Mahâvagga X,
2, 1; Kullavagga I, 11; IV, 14, 25, &c.
2:2 The Samanta Pâsâdikâ here says: nigghâpetîti yathâ so tam attham nigghâyati
oloketi evam karoti.
2:3 Pekkheti anupekkhetîti yathâ so tam attham pekkhati k’ eva punappunañ ka
pekkhati evam karoti. (Samanta Pâsâdikâ.)
3:1 Sammukhâ-vinaya-patirûpakena. The rule of procedure, called Sammukhâ-vinaya,
hereafter rendered 'Proceeding in Presence,' is one of the seven modes of
settling disputes already. referred to in the closing chapter of the Pâtimokkha
('Vinaya Texts,' vol. 1, p. 68), and is more fully described below in Cullavagga
IV, 14, 16, and following sections.
It will be seen below, from §§ IV, 14, 27-30, that it is involved in, or rather
is supposed to accompany, each of the other Proceedings mentioned in this
chapter.

Cullavagga - Fourth Khandhaka: Chapter 1

CULLAVAGGA.
FOURTH KHANDHAKA.
THE SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES AMONG THE FRATERNITY.
1.
1. Now at that time the Blessed Buddha was dwelling at Sâvatthi, in the Ârâma of
Anâthapindika. And at that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus used to carry out the
formal Acts--the Tagganiya, and the Nissaya, and the Pabbâganiya, and the
Patisâraniya, and the Ukkhepaniya--against Bhikkhus who were not present.
Then those Bhikkhus who were modest were annoyed, murmured, and became
indignant, saying, 'How can the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus [act thus] 1?' And those
Bhikkhus told the matter to the Blessed One.
'Is it true, O Bhikkhus, as they say, that the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus carry out
the (aforesaid) 1 formal Acts against Bhikkhus who are not present?'
'It is true, Lord!'
The Blessed Buddha rebuked them, saying, 'This is improper (&c., as in I, 1, 2,
down to the end).' And when he had thus rebuked them, and had
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delivered a religious discourse, he addressed the Bhikkhus, and said: 'The
formal Acts, O Bhikkhus, the Tagganiya-, the Nissaya-, the Pabbâganiya-, the
Patisâraniya-, and the Ukkhepaniya-kammas, ought not to be carried out against
Bhikkhus who are not present. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata
offence.'



Footnotes
1:1 The words above are repeated.