1. So the Bhikkhu-Samgha, with Sâriputta and Moggallâna at their head, proceeded to the Kitâ Hill, and there carried out the Pabbâganiyakamma against those Bhikkhus who were followers
Those Bhikkhus who were moderate were offended, murmured, and became indignant, saying, 'How can those Bhikkhus who are followers of Assagi and Punabbasu, after having been subjected by the Samgha to the Pabbâganiya-kamma, refuse to conduct themselves aright (&c., as before, down to) leave the Order?' And those Bhikkhus told the matter to the Blessed One.
Then the Blessed One on that occasion, and in that connection, convened a meeting of the Bhikkhusamgha, and asked the Bhikkhus:
'Is it true, O Bhikkhus, as they say, that those Bhikkhus who are followers of Assagi and Punabbasu, after having been subjected by the Samgha to the Pabbâganiya-kamma, refuse (&c., as before, down to) leave the Order.?'
'It is true, Lord!'
Here end the eighteen cases in which there ought to be a revocation (of the Pabbâganiya-kamma).
356:1 Corresponding to chapters 6 and 11 above.
357:1 Compare Samghâdisesa 13
357:2 These are the four so-called Agatis, usually occurring as the faults of a judge (Rh. D., 'Buddhist Birth Stories,' p. xxii, and Dasaratha Gâtaka, p. 1), but compare Sigâlovâda Sutta, ed. Grimblot, p. 299.
357:3 Compare Gâtaka I, 117, and Mahâvagga I, 39, 5.
