འདལ་བ་གཞ intro.111
The Chapter on Going Forth; The Chapter on the Restoration Rite; The Chapter on Lifting Restrictions; The Chapter on the Rains; The Chapter on Medicines intro.111
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intro.111
The commentator Ācārya Śūra²⁸ tells us that the early saṅgha committed no offenses during the first twelve years of the Buddha’s ministry. There was thus nothing to confess or amend for, and so no formal rules—that is, no Prātimokṣa Sūtra as we know it—to recite on the upavasatha.²⁹ Instead, the Buddha would recite two now-famous verses when the community gathered on the upavasatha. As Śūra recounts: