[1055] Is a legal issue arising from accusation (anuvādādhikaraṇa) a legal issue arising from an offence (āpattādhikaraṇa), a legal issue arising from business (kiccādhikaraṇa), or a legal issue arising from dispute (vivādādhikaraṇa)?
A legal issue arising from accusation is not a legal issue arising from an offence, is not a legal issue arising from business, is not a legal issue arising from dispute. Nevertheless, conditioned by a legal issue arising from accusation, there may be a legal issue arising from an offence, there may be a legal issue arising from business, there may be a legal issue arising from dispute. How so? Here bhikkhus accuse a bhikkhu of failure in virtue (sīlavipatti), or of failure in conduct (ācāravipatti), or of failure in view (diṭṭhivipatti), or of failure in livelihood (ājīvavipatti). Whatever therein is the accusing, the charging, the denouncing, the censuring, the siding with the accusation, the exertion in accusing, the lending of support — this is called a legal issue arising from accusation.
The Saṅgha disputes over a legal issue arising from accusation — this is a legal issue arising from dispute. While disputing, one accuses — this is a legal issue arising from accusation. While accusing, one commits an offence — this is a legal issue arising from an offence. On account of that offence the Saṅgha performs a formal act (kamma) — this is a legal issue arising from business. Thus, conditioned by a legal issue arising from accusation, there may be a legal issue arising from an offence, there may be a legal issue arising from business, there may be a legal issue arising from dispute.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.