Chulavagga 4.12

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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-12.

1. 'There are five things, O Bhikkhus, which are necessary to the valid carrying out of the Tassapapiyyasika-kamma. To wit--he is impure, he is shameless--a censure has been set on foot against him--the Sangha carries out the Kamma--it carries it out lawfully, and in a full quorum.

2. 'There are three things, O Bhikkhus, by which, when a Tassa-papiyyasika-kamma is characterised, it is against the Dhamma, and against the Vinaya, and difficult to be settled; (that is to say), when it has not been carried out in a full assembly of properly qualified persons, according to law and justice, and in the presence of the litigant parties--when it has been carried out without the accused person having been heard--when it has been carried out without the accused person having confessed himself guilty.

'These are the three things, O Bhikkhus, by which, when a Tassa-papiyyasika-kamma is characterised, it is against the Dhamma, and against the Vinaya, and difficult to be settled.

There are three things by which (and as in last paragraph) it is in accordance with the Dhamma, and in accordance with the Vinaya, and easy to be settled; (that is to say), when it has been [&c., the rest of this paragraph is the reverse of the last].'

3. [This paragraph exactly corresponds to Chulavagga I, 4, paragraph 1, as to the three cases in which the Sangha, if it likes, may carry out the Tassa-papiyyasika-kamma against a Bhikkhu.]

4. [In this paragraph the 'right conduct' for a Bhikkhu who has been subjected to this Kamma is laid down precisely as in I, 5 for a Bhikkhu subjected to the Tajjaniya-kamma.]

Then the Sangha carried out the Tassa-papiyyasika-kamma against Uvala the Bhikkhu.