Third Khandhaka. Chapter 36
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1. [The same nine cases of the throwing back is carried by unlawful proceeding, though the Mnatta and the rehabilitation are by a lawful proceeding.]
2. 'And in case, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu is guilty of a number of Sa"m"ghdisesa 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 Sa"m"gha for an inclusive probation on account of those offences. The Sa"m"gha imposes upon him an additional probation on account of those offences. He undergoing that probation is guilty meanwhile of a number of Sa"m"ghdisesa offences, definite ones, which he does conceal. He asks the Sa"m"gha to throw him back on account
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of those intervening offences to the commencement of his term of probation. The Sa"m"gha [does so] by an unlawful proceeding that is liable to be quashed, and unfit for the occasion; and it also imposes an inclusive probation upon him, but by an unlawful proceeding. He thinking, "I am undergoing that probation," is guilty meanwhile of a number of Sa"m"ghdisesa offences, definite ones, which he does conceal. When he has arrived at this condition he calls to mind the other offences committed while the first offences were being committed, and he calls to mind also the other offences committed while the latter offences were being committed.
Then it occurs to him, "I have been guilty of a number of Sa"m"ghdisesa offences ( and let me ask for an inclusive probation to be imposed by a lawful proceeding, and for a Mnatta to be imposed by a lawful proceeding, and then for rehabilitation by a lawful proceeding."
'And he asks the Sa"m"gha [accordingly], and the Sa"m"gha [does so]. That Bhikkhu, O Bhikkhus, is purified from those offences.'
[The same if some of the offences in each case have been concealed and some not concealed.]
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3, 4. [The Bhikkhu is not purified from such intervening and remembered offences as are specified in the last section, if the Sa"m"gha has proceeded, as in the first section of this chapter, by an unlawful proceeding.]
"Here ends the Third Khandhaka, on the Accumulation of Offences.
Footnotes
437:1 These offences must be understood to be offences committed while under probation, and concealed. See the note on chap. 35, 1.
1. [The same nine cases of the throwing back is carried by unlawful proceeding, though the Mnatta and the rehabilitation are by a lawful proceeding.]
2. 'And in case, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu is guilty of a number of Sa"m"ghdisesa 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 Sa"m"gha for an inclusive probation on account of those offences. The Sa"m"gha imposes upon him an additional probation on account of those offences. He undergoing that probation is guilty meanwhile of a number of Sa"m"ghdisesa offences, definite ones, which he does conceal. He asks the Sa"m"gha to throw him back on account
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of those intervening offences to the commencement of his term of probation. The Sa"m"gha [does so] by an unlawful proceeding that is liable to be quashed, and unfit for the occasion; and it also imposes an inclusive probation upon him, but by an unlawful proceeding. He thinking, "I am undergoing that probation," is guilty meanwhile of a number of Sa"m"ghdisesa offences, definite ones, which he does conceal. When he has arrived at this condition he calls to mind the other offences committed while the first offences were being committed, and he calls to mind also the other offences committed while the latter offences were being committed.
Then it occurs to him, "I have been guilty of a number of Sa"m"ghdisesa offences ( and let me ask for an inclusive probation to be imposed by a lawful proceeding, and for a Mnatta to be imposed by a lawful proceeding, and then for rehabilitation by a lawful proceeding."
'And he asks the Sa"m"gha [accordingly], and the Sa"m"gha [does so]. That Bhikkhu, O Bhikkhus, is purified from those offences.'
[The same if some of the offences in each case have been concealed and some not concealed.]
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3, 4. [The Bhikkhu is not purified from such intervening and remembered offences as are specified in the last section, if the Sa"m"gha has proceeded, as in the first section of this chapter, by an unlawful proceeding.]
"Here ends the Third Khandhaka, on the Accumulation of Offences.
Footnotes
437:1 These offences must be understood to be offences committed while under probation, and concealed. See the note on chap. 35, 1.
