[891] How many means of settlement (samathā) belong to the same category (tabbhāgiya) as a legal issue arising from dispute (vivādādhikaraṇa)? How many means of settlement belong to a different category (aññabhāgiya) from a legal issue arising from dispute? How many means of settlement belong to the same category as a legal issue arising from accusation (anuvādādhikaraṇa)? How many means of settlement belong to a different category from a legal issue arising from accusation? How many means of settlement belong to the same category as a legal issue arising from offense (āpattādhikaraṇa)? How many means of settlement belong to a different category from a legal issue arising from offense? How many means of settlement belong to the same category as a legal issue arising from business (kiccādhikaraṇa)? How many means of settlement belong to a different category from a legal issue arising from business?
Two means of settlement belong to the same category as a legal issue arising from dispute: settlement in the presence (sammukhāvinaya) and the decision of the majority (yebhuyyasikā). Five means of settlement belong to a different category from a legal issue arising from dispute: settlement through recollection (sativinaya), settlement on account of past insanity (amūḷhavinaya), acting upon acknowledgment (paṭiññātakaraṇa), the pronouncement of aggravated misconduct (tassapāpiyasikā), and covering over as with grass (tiṇavatthāraka).
Four means of settlement belong to the same category as a legal issue arising from accusation: settlement in the presence, settlement through recollection, settlement on account of past insanity, and the pronouncement of aggravated misconduct. Three means of settlement belong to a different category from a legal issue arising from accusation: the decision of the majority, acting upon acknowledgment, and covering over as with grass.
Three means of settlement belong to the same category as a legal issue arising from offense: settlement in the presence, acting upon acknowledgment, and covering over as with grass. Four means of settlement belong to a different category from a legal issue arising from offense: the decision of the majority, settlement through recollection, settlement on account of past insanity, and the pronouncement of aggravated misconduct.
One means of settlement belongs to the same category as a legal issue arising from business: settlement in the presence. Six means of settlement belong to a different category from a legal issue arising from business: the decision of the majority, settlement through recollection, settlement on account of past insanity, acting upon acknowledgment, the pronouncement of aggravated misconduct, and covering over as with grass.
The Section on Belonging to the Same Category (tabbhāgiyavāra), the eighth, is finished.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.