Fourth Khandhaka. Chapter 2
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1. The single Bhikkhu who speaks not in accordance with the right, the many who speak not in accordance with the right, the Sa"m"gha 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 Sa"m"gha 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 Sa"m"gha, and in the presence of the accused person) 1.
[And in like manner, if he instruct the many, or the Sa"m"gha, who speak according to the right;--or if the many or the Sa"m"gha who speak not according to the right instruct the one, or the many, or the Sa"m"gha who speak according to the right;-then the dispute is settled contrary to the Dhamma (&c., as before).]
\"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 mtik; compare the expression mtik-dharo as applied to a learned Bhikkhu in the stock phrase at Mahvagga X, 2, 1; \"K"ullavagga I, 11; Iv, 14, 25, &c.
2:2 The Samanta Psdik here says: ni"g"gh"petti yath so ta"m" attha"m" ni"g"gh"yati oloketi eva"m" karoti.
2:3 Pekkheti anupekkhetti yath so ta"m" attha"m" pekkhati "k"' eva punappuna k"a pekkhati eva"m" karoti. (Samanta Psdik.)
3:1 Sammukh-vinaya-pa"t"irpakena. The rule of procedure, called Sammukh-vinaya, hereafter rendered 'Proceeding in Presence,' is one of the seven modes of settling disputes already. referred to in the closing chapter of the Ptimokkha ('Vinaya Texts,' vol. 1, p. 68), and is more fully described below in "K"ullavagga 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.
1. The single Bhikkhu who speaks not in accordance with the right, the many who speak not in accordance with the right, the Sa"m"gha 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 Sa"m"gha 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 Sa"m"gha, and in the presence of the accused person) 1.
[And in like manner, if he instruct the many, or the Sa"m"gha, who speak according to the right;--or if the many or the Sa"m"gha who speak not according to the right instruct the one, or the many, or the Sa"m"gha who speak according to the right;-then the dispute is settled contrary to the Dhamma (&c., as before).]
\"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 mtik; compare the expression mtik-dharo as applied to a learned Bhikkhu in the stock phrase at Mahvagga X, 2, 1; \"K"ullavagga I, 11; Iv, 14, 25, &c.
2:2 The Samanta Psdik here says: ni"g"gh"petti yath so ta"m" attha"m" ni"g"gh"yati oloketi eva"m" karoti.
2:3 Pekkheti anupekkhetti yath so ta"m" attha"m" pekkhati "k"' eva punappuna k"a pekkhati eva"m" karoti. (Samanta Psdik.)
3:1 Sammukh-vinaya-pa"t"irpakena. The rule of procedure, called Sammukh-vinaya, hereafter rendered 'Proceeding in Presence,' is one of the seven modes of settling disputes already. referred to in the closing chapter of the Ptimokkha ('Vinaya Texts,' vol. 1, p. 68), and is more fully described below in "K"ullavagga 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.
