[867] Question: Through the first origin of offenses (āpattisamuṭṭhāna), how many offenses (āpatti) does one commit?
Answer: Through the first origin of offenses one commits five offenses. A bhikkhu, perceiving it as allowable (kappiyasaññī), builds a hut by means of his own begging, on a site not designated, exceeding the measure, involving harm (sārambha), without space for walking around: in the act itself there is a dukkaṭa; when one lump [of mortar] remains to complete it, there is an offense of thullaccaya; when that lump has been applied, there is an offense of saṅghādisesa. A bhikkhu, perceiving it as allowable, eats food at the wrong time: an offense of pācittiya. A bhikkhu, perceiving it as allowable, having received with his own hand hard food or soft food from the hand of an unrelated bhikkhunī who has entered among the houses, eats it: an offense of pāṭidesanīya. Through the first origin of offenses one commits these five offenses.
Question: Of the four failures, how many failures do those offenses partake of? Of the seven classes of offenses, by how many classes of offenses are they included? Of the six origins of offenses, from how many origins do they originate? Of the four legal issues, which legal issue are they? Of the seven means of settlement, by how many means of settlement are they settled?
Answer: Those offenses partake of two of the four failures (vipatti): sometimes of failure of virtue, sometimes of failure of conduct. Of the seven classes of offenses (āpattikkhandha), they are included by five classes of offenses: sometimes by the class of saṅghādisesa offenses, sometimes by the class of thullaccaya offenses, sometimes by the class of pācittiya offenses, sometimes by the class of pāṭidesanīya offenses, sometimes by the class of dukkaṭa offenses. Of the six origins of offenses, they originate from one origin: they originate from body, not from speech, not from mind (citta). Of the four legal issues (adhikaraṇa), they are the legal issue of offense (āpattādhikaraṇa). Of the seven means of settlement (samatha), they are settled by three means of settlement: sometimes by removal in the presence (sammukhāvinaya) together with acting upon acknowledgment (paṭiññātakaraṇa), and sometimes by removal in the presence together with covering over as with grass (tiṇavatthāraka).
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.