Pārivāsikakkhandhaka

Vinayapiṭaka · Cūḷavagga (1) · Vol. 6 · Section 375

[375] Bhikkhus, if [a Saṅgha] with a bhikkhu deserving rehabilitation (abbhāna) as its fourth member should grant probation (parivāsa), should send back to the beginning (mūlāya paṭikassanā), or should grant penance (mānatta); or if a group of twenty of which that bhikkhu is one should rehabilitate him — that is not a valid act, and it should not be done. The duties of one deserving rehabilitation (abbhānārahavatta) are concluded. The Pārivāsika-khandhaka, the second, is concluded. In this khandhaka there are five cases (vatthu). The summary thereof:

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