PārājikkaṇḍaDutiyapārājikasikkhābada

Vinayapiṭaka · Bhikkhu Vibhaṅga (1) · Vol. 1 · Section 89

[89] **This one too:** this is said with reference to the former (bhikkhu). **Is pārājika:** just as a withered leaf, fallen¹ from its stalk, is incapable of becoming green again, even so a bhikkhu, having taken what was not given—whether a pāda, or the worth of a pāda, or more than a pāda—in what is reckoned as theft, is not an ascetic (samaṇa), not a son of the Sakyan; therefore it is said, "is pārājika." **Not in communion:** communion (saṃvāsa) means a common legal act (kamma), a common recitation (uddesa), the state of having the same training—this is called communion. That does not exist together with him; therefore it is said, "not in communion." ¹ There is also the reading *pamutto* ("released").

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

This passage also appears in 5 other places