[494] How does one repudiate (paccādiyati) a legitimate concord (dhammikā sāmaggī)? Here, bhikkhus, by whatever modes (ākāra), by whatever characteristics (liṅga), by whatever signs (nimitta) there comes to be the repudiation of a legitimate concord, by those modes, by those characteristics, by those signs a bhikkhu sees a bhikkhu repudiating a legitimate concord. Or a bhikkhu does not himself see a bhikkhu repudiating a legitimate concord, but another bhikkhu informs a bhikkhu: "Friend, the bhikkhu named so-and-so repudiates a legitimate concord." Or a bhikkhu does not himself see a bhikkhu repudiating a legitimate concord, nor does another bhikkhu inform a bhikkhu, "Friend, the bhikkhu named so-and-so repudiates a legitimate concord," but that very bhikkhu himself informs a bhikkhu: "Friend, I repudiate a legitimate concord." Wishing to do so, bhikkhus, a bhikkhu—on the basis of what has been seen, of what has been heard, or of that suspicion—may, on that uposatha day, the fourteenth or the fifteenth, when that person is present, declare in the midst of the Saṅgha:
"Venerable sirs, let the Saṅgha listen to me. The person named so-and-so repudiates a legitimate concord. I suspend the Pātimokkha for him. The Pātimokkha should not be recited while he is present."
This is a legitimate suspension of the Pātimokkha.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.