[489] How is it that one who has committed an offense entailing expulsion (pārājika) is seated in that assembly? Bhikkhus, here, by whatever modes, by whatever characteristics, by whatever signs the committing of a pārājika offense takes place, by those modes, by those characteristics, by those signs a bhikkhu sees a bhikkhu committing a pārājika offense. Or the bhikkhu does not himself see the bhikkhu committing a pārājika offense, but another bhikkhu informs the bhikkhu: "Friend, the bhikkhu named so-and-so has committed a pārājika offense." Or the bhikkhu does not himself see the bhikkhu committing a pārājika offense, nor does another bhikkhu inform the bhikkhu, "Friend, the bhikkhu named so-and-so has committed a pārājika offense," but that very bhikkhu himself informs a bhikkhu: "Friend, I have committed a pārājika offense." Bhikkhus, if he so wishes, then on the basis of what he has seen, what he has heard, or that suspicion, on that Uposatha day, whether the fourteenth or the fifteenth, when that individual is present, the bhikkhu may declare in the midst of the Saṅgha:
"Venerable sirs, let the Saṅgha hear me. The individual named so-and-so has committed a pārājika offense. I suspend the Pātimokkha for him; while he is present, the Pātimokkha should not be recited."
This suspension of the Pātimokkha is legitimate.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.