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Mv II 21
PTS: Mv II 23 | CS: vin.mv.02.21
Chandadānakathā
The Discussion of Giving Consent[1]
by
Ven. Khematto Bhikkhu
Alternate translations/layout: 'line by line' Pāḷi - English

(Mv.II.23.1) [182] Then the Blessed One addressed the monks, “Gather, monks. The Saṅgha will perform a transaction.”

When that was said, a certain monk said to the Blessed One, “There is a sick monk. He hasn’t come.”

“Monks, I allow that a sick monk give his consent.”

“And, monks, it should be given like this:

“The sick monk, going to one monk, arranging his upper robe over one shoulder, sitting in the kneeling position with hands placed palm-to-palm over the heart, should say to him, ‘I give consent. Convey my consent. Announce my consent.’

“If he makes this understood by physical gesture, by voice, or by both physical gesture and voice, his consent is given.

“If he does not make this understood by physical gesture, by voice, or by both physical gesture and voice, his consent is not given.

(Mv.II.23.2) “If he manages it thus, well and good. If not, then having carried the sick monk to the midst of the Saṅgha on a bed or bench, the transaction may be carried out.

“If the thought occurs to the monks who are tending to the sick monk, ‘If we move the sick one from this spot his disease will grow worse or he will die,’ then the sick one should not be moved from that place.

“The transaction is to be carried out when the Saṅgha has gone there.[2]

“Not even then should a transaction be performed by a faction of the Saṅgha. If (the Saṅgha) should perform it: an offense of wrong doing.”[3]

(Mv.II.23.3) “If the conveyor of consent, on being given consent, goes away then and there, consent should be given to another.

“If the conveyor of consent, on being given consent — then and there — disrobes, dies, or admits to being a novice, to having renounced the training, to having committed an extreme offense, to being insane, to being possessed, to being delirious with pain, to being suspended for not seeing an offense, to being suspended for not making amends for an offense, to being suspended for not relinquishing an evil view, to being a paṇḍaka, to being one living in affiliation by theft, to having gone over to another religion, or to being an animal, a matricide, a patricide, the murderer of an arahant, the molester of a bhikkhunī, a schismatic, one who has shed a Tathāgata’s blood, or a hermaphrodite, consent should be given to another.

“If the conveyor of consent, having been given consent, on the way (to the meeting) goes away, the consent is not conveyed.

“If the conveyor of consent, having been given consent, on the way (to the meeting) disrobes, dies, …

“admits to being a hermaphrodite, the consent is not conveyed.

“If the conveyor of consent, on being given consent, on arriving at the Saṅgha, goes away, the consent is conveyed.

“If the conveyor of consent, on being given consent, having arrived at the Saṅgha, disrobes, dies, …

“admits to being a hermaphrodite (on arriving at the Saṅgha), the consent is conveyed.

“If the conveyor of consent, on being given consent, arrives at the Saṅgha but, falling asleep does not announce it, being heedless does not announce it, (or) entering a (meditative) attainment, does not announce it, the consent is conveyed.

“There is no offense for the conveyor of consent.

“If the conveyor of consent, on being given consent, arrives at the Saṅgha but intentionally does not announce it, the consent is conveyed.

“For the conveyor of consent: an offense of wrong doing.

“Monks, I allow that, on the Uposatha day, when purity is given, that consent be given as well, when the Saṅgha has something to be done.”

Notes

1.
See also: BMCI: Pc 79: Transactions, and Mv.IX.3.5
2.
i.e., to where the sick monk is.
2.
BMCII Chap. 12: Offenses.
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