{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe13/sbe1306.htm","path":"bud/sbe13/sbe1306.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe13/sbe1306.htm","text":"RULES REGARDING UNDETERMINED MATTERS.\nHere, venerable Sirs, the two Rules regarding undetermined matters come into recitation.\n1. Whatsoever Bhikkhu shall take a seat with a woman, one man with one woman, in secret, on a secluded seat, suitable2 (for sexual intercourse); and if a believing woman, trustworthy of speech, who has seen (them so), shall lay it to his charge under one or other of three Rules, either under the P\u00e2r\u00e2gika3, or under the Samgh\u00e2disesa4 or under the P\u00e2kittiya5 Rules:--let then that Bhikkhu, if he acknowledge that he has so sat, be dealt with (according to the circumstances reported) for a P\u00e2r\u00e2gika, or for a Samgh\u00e2disesa, or fora P\u00e2kittiya; or let that Bhikkhu be dealt with under that one of those three Rules under which the believing woman, trustworthy in speech, shall lay it to his charge.\nThis rule relates to a matter undetermined.\n2. And furthermore, even if the seat be not secluded, and not convenient (for sexual intercourse), but be convenient for addressing a woman with wicked words6, then whatsoever Bhikkhu shall take p. 17 a seat with a woman, one man with one woman, in secret, on such a seat, and a believing woman, trustworthy in speech, who has seen (them so), shall lay it to his charge under one or other of two Rules, either under the Samgh\u00e2disesa, or under the P\u00e2kittiya Rule--let then that Bhikkhu, if he acknowledge that he has so sat, be dealt with (according to the circumstances reported) for a Samgh\u00e2disesa, or for a P\u00e2kittiya; or let that Bhikkhu be dealt with under that one of those two Rules under which the believing woman, trustworthy in speech, shall lay it to his charge.\nVenerable Sirs, the two Rules regarding uncertain matters have been recited.\nIn respect of them I ask the venerable ones, 'Are you pure in this matter?'\nA second time I ask the venerable ones, 'Are you pure in this matter?'\nA third time I ask the venerable ones, 'Are you pure in this matter ?'\nThe venerable ones are pure herein. Therefore do they keep silence. Thus I understand.\nHere endeth the recitation of the Aniyatas.\n1 The whole or the following portion of the P\u00e2timokkha, together with the Old Commentary on it, recurs in the Vibhanga, Book III.\n2 Alamkammaniye, an expression found only in this passage, The Vibhanga interprets it as above (Aniyata I, 2, 1).\n3 The 1st P\u00e2r\u00e2gika.\n4 The 2nd Samgh\u00e2disesa.\n5 P\u00e2kittiya 44, 45; and compare also 7, 27.\n6 Compare the 3rd Samgh\u00e2disesa, and probably the 4th is also referred to.","title":"Vinaya Texts, Part I (SBE 13) - P\u00e2timokkha - Aniyat\u00e2 Dhamm\u00e2","type":"page"}