{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe20/sbe20110.htm","path":"bud/sbe20/sbe20110.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe20/sbe20110.htm","text":"1. Now at that time the Bhikkhun\u00ees did not hold Pav\u00e2ran\u00e2.\nThey told this matter to the Blessed One.\n'A Bhikkhun\u00ee is not, O Bhikkhus, to omit holding Pav\u00e2ran\u00e2. Whosoever does so, shall be dealt with according to law 1.'\nNow at that time the Bhikkhun\u00ees held Pav\u00e2ran\u00e2 by themselves, and not in the Bhikkhu-samgha.\n'A Bhikkhun\u00ee is not, O Bhikkhus, to hold Pav\u00e2ran\u00e2 apart, and not in the Bhikkhu-samgha. Whosoever does so, shall be dealt with according to law 2.'\nNow at that time Bhikkhun\u00ees holding Pav\u00e2ran\u00e2 with the Bhikkhus only, and not apart by themselves, disturbed (the meeting of the Bhikkhu-samgha).\n'A Bhikkhun\u00ee is not, O Bhikkhus, to hold Pav\u00e2ran\u00e2 with the Bhikkhu-samgha only. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty oft dukkata 2.'\nNow at that time Bhikkhun\u00ees spent all their time\nbefore noon holding Pav\u00e2ran\u00e2 [and so had no time left for the early meal].\n'I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, that they hold Pav\u00e2ran\u00e2 in the afternoon.'\nWhen holding Pav\u00e2ran\u00e2 in the afternoon, they had not time enough [to conclude their own ceremony that day, and take part in that of the Bhikkhus].\n'I allow them, O Bhikkhus, to hold their own Pav\u00e2ran\u00e2 one day, and that with the Bhikkhus the next day.'\n2. Now at that time the whole of the Bhikkhun\u00ee-samgha declaring, each one for herself, her Pav\u00e2ran\u00e2 before the Bhikkhu-samgha, disturbed (the proceedings).\n'I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, that some one learned and competent Bhikkhun\u00ee be deputed to make the Pav\u00e2ran\u00e2 invitation on behalf of the Bhikkhun\u00ee-samgha before the Bhikkhu-samgha. And thus, O Bhikkhus, is she to be deputed:\n'\"First, the Bhikkhun\u00ee is to be asked (whether she be willing to serve). When that has been done, a learned and discreet Bhikkhun\u00ee is to lay this motion before the Samgha: Let the Samgha, venerable Ladies, hear me. If it seem meet to the Samgha, let the Samgha depute N. N. to make the Pav\u00e2ran\u00e2 invitation on behalf of the Bhikkhun\u00ee-samgha before the Bhikkhu-samgha. That is the motion.\n'\"Let the Samgha, venerable Ladies, hear me. The Samgha deputes N. N. to make the Pav\u00e2ran\u00e2 invitation on behalf of the Bhikkhun\u00ee-samgha before the Bhikkhu-samgha. Whosoever of the venerable\nones approves thereof, let her keep silence. Whosoever approves not thereof, let her speak.\n'\"N. N. is deputed by the Samgha to make the Pav\u00e2ran\u00e2 invitation on behalf of the Bhikkhun\u00ee-samgha before the Bhikkhu-samgha. The Samgha approves thereof. Therefore is it silent. Thus do I understand.\"'\n3. 'When that Bhikkhun\u00ee has been deputed, she, accompanied by the Bhikkhun\u00ee-samgha, is to go before the Bhikkhu-samgha, arrange her robe over one shoulder, bow down before the Bhikkhus, and sitting on her heels, to stretch forth her joined palms, and say: \"The Bhikkhun\u00ee-samgha invites the Bhikkhu-samgha (to point out to them any faults they may have committed) in respect of things heard, or seen, or suspected. May the Bhikkhu-samgha speak to the Bhikkhun\u00ee-samgha (if there be anything wherein they have offended) out of compassion toward them. Then will they, if they perceive the offence, confess the same. And a second time the Bhikkhun\u00ee-samgha . . . . . . [the whole repeated]. And a third time . . . . . . [the whole repeated] 1.\"'\n356:1 The 57th Bhikkhun\u00ee P\u00e2kittiya, which is the same as the 4th Garudhamma above, X, I, 4.\n356:2 See last note.\n358:1 This, of course, is the same form that each separate member of the Order uses before his or her own Samgha. Compare our notes above on the corresponding passage in the Mah\u00e2vagga, IV, I, 4.","title":"SBE 20: Tenth Khandhaka: Chapter 19","type":"page"}