{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe17/sbe17148.htm","path":"bud/sbe17/sbe17148.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe17/sbe17148.htm","text":"1. Now at that time, since there was a great company of the Bhikkhus gathered together at S\u00e2vatthi, those Bhikkhus who had been placed on probation did not know how to carry out their probation correctly.\nThey told this thing to the Blessed One.\n'I prescribe to you, O Bhikkhus, to carry out your probation correctly. Now thus, O Bhikkhus, ought you to postpone 5 the probation. The Bhikkhu who has been placed on probation is to go up to a single Bhikkhu, and arranging his robe on one shoulder, and squatting down on his heels, and stretching forth his hands with the palms together, he is to say: \"I postpone my probation.\" Then the probation is postponed. Or he is to say: \"I postpone\nthe duties (i.e. of a probationer).\" Then also the probation is postponed.'\n2. Now at that time the Bhikkhus who were at S\u00e2vatthi went away hither and thither, and the Bhikkhus who had been placed on probation were not able to carry out their probation correctly 1.\n'I prescribe to you, O Bhikkhus, to take upon yourselves again the probation (which had been postponed). Now thus, O Bhikkhus, ought you to take it upon yourselves again. The Bhikkhu who has been placed under probation is to go up to a single Bhikkhu, and arranging his robe on one shoulder, and squatting down on his heels, and stretching forth his hands with the palms together, he is to say: \"I take my probation again upon myself.\" Then the probation is resumed. Or he is to say: \"I take the duties (i.e. of a probationer) upon myself again.\" Then also is the probation resumed.'\n__________________\nHere end the duties encumbent on a probationer.\n392:4 This chapter is repeated below, chap. 8, in reference to Bhikkhus undergoing the M\u00e2natta discipline.\n392:5 That is, if it should be impossible during the time immediately succeeding the imposition of probation to fulfil all the thereto necessary duties, then a Bhikkhu might postpone the fulfilment to some more convenient season.\n393:1 The Samanta P\u00e2s\u00e2dik\u00e2 here says, Evam vattam sam\u00e2diyitv\u00e2 parivutta-pariv\u00e2sassa m\u00e2nattam ganhato puna vatta-sam\u00e2d\u00e2na-kikkam n\u2019 atthi sam\u00e2dinna-vatto yeva hi esa. Tasm\u00e2ssa kh\u00e2rattam m\u00e2nattam d\u00e2tabbam, kinna-m\u00e2natto abbhetabbo, evam an\u00e2pattiko hutv\u00e2 suddhante patitthito tisso sikkh\u00e2 p\u00fbretv\u00e2 dukkhass\u2019 antam karissat\u00eeti.","title":"SBE 17: Second Khandhaka: Chapter 3","type":"page"}