Chulavagga 4.2

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

CHULAVAGGA (THE MINOR SECTION)

FOURTH KHANDHAKA (THE SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES AMONG THE FRATERNITY)

Chapter-2 : When Falsely a Matter is Considered as Right

1. The single Bhikkhu who speaks not in accordance with the right, the many who speak not in accordance with the right, the Sangha 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 Sangha which speaks in accordance with the right

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, or urges him to see or consider the matter in that light, or teaches him, or 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 Sangha, and in the presence of the accused person).

[And in like manner, if he instruct the many, or the Sangha, who speak according to the right;--or if the many or the Sangha who speak not according to the right instruct the one, or the many, or the Sangha 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.