Chulavagga 3.22

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Adapted from the Translation by T. W. Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg

CHULAVAGGA (THE MINOR SECTION)

THIRD KHANDHAKA (PROBATION AND PENANCE - CONTINUED)

Chapter-22 : Longer Concealment, Longer Probation

1. Now at that time a certain Bhikkhu had committed two Sanghadisesa offences which he had concealed for two months. And it occurred to him, 'Lo! I have committed two Sanghadisesa offences which I have concealed for two months. Let me now ask the Sangha for a probation of two months for one offence concealed for two months.' And he asked the Sangha for a probation of two months for one offence concealed for two months. And the Sangha imposed upon him a probation (&c., as before, down to) for two months. While he was undergoing that probation, shame overcame him in that he thought, 'I have committed, &c. . . . And it occurred to me, &c. . . . And I asked, &c. . . . And the Sangha imposed. . . . And while I was undergoing. . . . (&c., as before, down to) for two months.'

'Let me now ask the Sangha for a probation of two months for the other offence concealed for two months.'

2. He told the Bhikkhus [all that had happened]. They told this thing to the Lord Buddha.

3. 'Let then the Sangha, O Bhikkhus, impose upon that Bhikkhu a probation of two months for that other offence concealed for two months.'

[Here follows the kammavaka as before.]

'Then that Bhikkhu, O Bhikkhus, should undergo probation for two months from that date.'