Chulavagga 2.7

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

CHULAVAGGA (THE MINOR SECTION)

SECOND KHANDHAKA (PROBATION AND PENANCE)

Chapter-7.

1. Now the venerable Upali went up to the place where the Lord Buddha was, and on arriving there, he saluted the Lord Buddha, and took his seat on one side. And when he was so seated the venerable Upali said to the Lord Buddha: 'Now in what case, Lord, can there be an interruption of the Manatta discipline of a Bhikkhu who is undergoing that discipline?'

There are four ways of interruption of the Manatta discipline, O Upali, of a Bhikkhu who is undergoing that discipline; (that is to say), by dwelling together, by dwelling alone, by not announcing, and by living with less than four other Bhikkhus. These are the four ways (&c., as before, down to) undergoing that discipline.'