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Fourth Khandhaka. Chapter 8

8.

1.
'Now, O Bhikkhus, an official act carried out against a Bhikkhu who has confessed himself guilty is invalid as follows, and is valid as follows. And how does such an official act become invalid? In case a Bhikkhu have committed a Pr"g"ika offence, and in respect ther either the Sa"m"gha, or a number of Bhikkhus, or a single Bhikkhu warns him, saying, "The venerable one has been guilty of a Pr"g"ika." And he replies thus, "I have not, Sirs, been guilty of a Pr"g"ika. I have been guilty of a Sa"m"ghdisesa." And in respect ther the Sa"m"gha deals with him for a Sa"m"ghdisesa. Then that official act is invalid.'

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[And so also if on being warned of any one of the seven offences 1 he confesses himself to be guilty of any one of the offences different from the one charged, then the official act is invalid.]

2.
'And when, O Bhikkhus, is such an official act valid? In case a Bhikkhu have committed a Pr"g"ika offence, and in respect ther the Sa"m"gha, or a number of Bhikkhus, or a single Bhikkhu warns him, saying, "The venerable one has been guilty of a Pr"g"ika." And he replies, "Yea, Sirs, I have been guilty of a Pr"g"ika." And in respect ther the Sa"m"gha deals with him for a Pr"g"ika. Then that official act is valid 2.'

[And so for each of the other offences mentioned in 1, the whole of 2 is repeated.]

Footnotes

24:1
The same, namely, as those in the list given at Mahvagga Iv, 16, 12, &c.

24:2
In other words, if a Bhikkhu confesses an offence different from that with which he has been charged, the confession cannot be used against him even as regards a decision with respect to the offence confessed.

24:3
On this chapter, see further below, Iv, 14, 16.
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