The Book of the Discipline Lo, (Vinaya-Pitaka), (Suttavib Translated By I, B. Horner, Fellow and Associate of Newnham College, Cambridge Camb ... Pali Text Society, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint)

This volume of theB ooh of theD iscipline concludes the translation of theS uttavibhanga of the Vinaya and covers vol. iv ofO ldenberg sedition of the Vinayapitaham, p. 124 to the end. It thus includes the last thirtytwo Pacittiyas for monks, Nos. LXI-XCII, the four Patidesaniyas or offences which ought to be confessed, the seventy-five Sekhiyas or rules for training or of etiquette, and the seven A dhiharanasamathd dhammd or ways for settling legal questions. This ends theM ahavibhahga portion of theS uttavibhanga, that portion devoted to the Patimokkha rules of restraint and training for monks. The nuns portion, theB hikkhunivibhahga, follows immediately, the rules being classified on the same lines as those for monks: Parajika, Sahghadisesa, Nissaggiya, Pacittiya, Patidesaniya, Sekhiya, A dhikaranasamatha dhamma. There is, however, no A niyata, or undetermined class of offence, for nuns. The Monks Pacittiya Group (LXI-XCII) Savatthi is given as the locus or provenance of twenty-eight of these thirty-two rules, Rajagaha of two, Kosambi and Kapilavatthu of one each. It is not uninstructive to look at these four rules in which the lord is recorded to have been elsewhere than inS avatthi. Pac. LXV, whose locus is given as Rajagaha, recounts the choice of young Upali sparents of a monks career for him, apparently mainly on the grounds that recluses are pleasant in their conduct and live in a certain amount of ease. The episode occurs again in theM ahdvagga (V in. i. 77), but there, because at the end it is stated that he who ordains a person who is under twenty years of age must be dealt with according to the rule, the existence of this Pacittiya is evidently presupposed.
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