[878] Conditioned by a legal issue arising from dispute (vivādādhikaraṇa), how many offenses (āpatti) does one commit?
Conditioned by a legal issue arising from dispute, one commits two offenses: one who abuses a fully ordained person commits an offense of pācittiya; one who abuses a person not fully ordained commits an offense of dukkaṭa. Conditioned by a legal issue arising from dispute, one commits these two offenses.
Of the four failures (vipatti), how many failures do those offenses belong to? … Of the seven means of settlement (samatha), by how many means of settlement are they settled?
Those offenses belong to one of the four failures: failure of conduct (ācāravipatti).
Of the seven classes of offenses (āpattikkhandha), they are included in two classes of offenses: sometimes in the class of pācittiya offenses, sometimes in the class of dukkaṭa offenses.
Of the six originations of offenses (āpattisamuṭṭhāna), they originate through three originations: sometimes they originate from body and mind, not from speech; sometimes they originate from speech and mind, not from body; sometimes they originate from body, speech, and mind.
Of the four kinds of legal issues (adhikaraṇa), they are a legal issue arising from an offense (āpattādhikaraṇa).
Of the seven means of settlement, they are settled by three means of settlement: sometimes by resolution in the presence (sammukhāvinaya) together with acting according to acknowledgment (paṭiññātakaraṇa); sometimes by resolution in the presence together with covering over with grass (tiṇavatthāraka).
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.