{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe20/sbe20011.htm","path":"bud/sbe20/sbe20011.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe20/sbe20011.htm","text":"1. 'There are ten cases, O Bhikkhus, in which the taking of votes is invalid; and ten in which the taking of votes is valid.\n'Which are the ten in which the taking of votes is invalid? When the matter in dispute is trivial 2--when the case has not run its course (that is, when. the necessary preliminaries of submission to arbitration have not been carried out 3)--when regarding the matter in dispute the Bhikkhus have not formally remembered, or been formally called upon to remember, the offence 4--when the taker of votes 5 knows that those whose opinions are not in accordance with the law will be in the majority,\nor probably 1 may be in the majority--when he knows that the voting will result in a schism in the Samgha--when he is in doubt whether the voting will result in a schism in the Samgha--when the votes are irregularly given 2--when all do not vote equally 3--and when they do not vote in accordance with the view (which they really hold). These are the ten cases in which the voting is invalid 4.\n2. 'And which are the ten cases in which the voting is valid?'\n[The ten cases are precisely the reverse of the other ten.]\n26:1 On this chapter, see further below, IV, 14, 24-26.\n26:2 Oramattakam. Compare the English law maxim, De minimis non curat lex.\n26:3 Buddhaghosa says, Na ka gatigatan ti dve tayo \u00e2v\u00e2se na gatam, tattha tatth\u2019 eva v\u00e2 dvitikkhattum avinikkhitam. See on these proceedings above.\n26:4 Buddhaghosa says, Na ka sarita-s\u00e2ritan ti dvitikkhattum tehi bhikkh\u00fbhi sayam saritam va a\u00f1\u00f1ehi s\u00e2ritam v\u00e2 na hoti.\n26:5 G\u00e2n\u00e2t\u00ee ti sal\u00e2kam g\u00e2hento g\u00e2n\u00e2ti. (S.P.)\n27:1 App eva n\u00e2ma. That this phrase does not merely mean 'perhaps' is clear from its use in \u00a7 2.\n27:2 Adhammena ganhant\u00ee ti adhammav\u00e2dino evam mayam bah\u00fb bhaviss\u00e2m\u00e2 ti dve dve sal\u00e2k\u00e2yo ganhanti. (S.P.)\n27:3 On vagg\u00e2, here = vi + agga, compare our note on the 21st P\u00e2kittiya, and Kullavagga I, 2, 1. Buddhaghosa here says, Vagg\u00e2 ganhant\u00ee ti dve dhammav\u00e2dino ekam dhammav\u00e2disal\u00e2kam ganhanti evam dhammav\u00e2dino na bah\u00fb bhavissanti ti ma\u00f1\u00f1am\u00e2n\u00e2.\n27:4 With this chapter the 26th section of chapter 14 should be compared, where very curious means are inculcated for avoiding some of the votes here stated to be invalid.","title":"SBE 20: Fourth Khandhaka: Chapter 10","type":"page"}