[1052] Is a legal issue arising from offenses (āpattādhikaraṇa) an offense (āpatti) or not an offense? A legal issue arising from offenses is not an offense. But might one commit an offense with a legal issue arising from offenses as condition? Yes, one might commit an offense with a legal issue arising from offenses as condition. With a legal issue arising from offenses as condition, how many offenses does one commit? With a legal issue arising from offenses as condition, one commits four offenses: a bhikkhunī who, knowing it, conceals a pārājika offense that has been committed, commits an offense entailing pārājika; if, being doubtful, she conceals it, she commits an offense of thullaccaya (grave offense); a bhikkhu who conceals a saṅghādisesa commits an offense of pācittiya; one who conceals a failure of conduct (ācāravipatti) commits an offense of dukkaṭa. With a legal issue arising from offenses as condition, one commits these four offenses.
Those offenses — of the four failures (vipatti), how many failures do they partake of? Of the four legal issues (adhikaraṇa), which legal issue are they? Of the seven classes of offenses (āpattikkhandha), by how many classes of offenses are they comprised? Of the six originations of offenses (samuṭṭhāna), by how many originations do they originate? By how many legal issues, in how many places, by how many means of settlement (samatha) are they settled?
Those offenses partake of two of the four failures: sometimes failure of virtue (sīlavipatti), sometimes failure of conduct. Of the four legal issues, they are a legal issue arising from offenses. Of the seven classes of offenses, they are comprised by four classes of offenses: sometimes by the pārājika class of offenses, sometimes by the thullaccaya class of offenses, sometimes by the pācittiya class of offenses, sometimes by the dukkaṭa class of offenses. Of the six originations of offenses, they originate by one origination: they originate from body, from speech, and from mind (citta). That offense which is without remainder is settled by no legal issue, in no place, by no means of settlement. Those offenses which are light are settled by one legal issue — a legal issue arising from business (kiccādhikaraṇa) — in three places: in the midst of the Saṅgha, in the midst of a group, and in the presence of an individual; and by three means of settlement: sometimes by proceeding in the presence (sammukhāvinaya) together with acting upon acknowledgement (paṭiññātakaraṇa), and sometimes by proceeding in the presence together with covering over as with grass (tiṇavatthāraka).
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.