The seventeen sections (vastu) on monastic procedure 5.33

5.33

evamukte kośāmbakā bhikṣavo bhagavantamidamavocan | dharmasvāmī bhagavān dharmasvāmī sugataḥ | ete'smākaṃ vakṣyanti duruktāni durbhāṣitāni | vayameṣāṃ kimarthaṃ marṣayāma iti | atha bhagavāṃsteṣāṃ bhikṣuṇāṃ tayā īryayā vipratipattyā anāttamanā anabhirāddhastata eva ṛddhyā upari vihāyasā pra(krānto) yena śrāvastī tena cārikāṃ prakrānto'nupūrveṇa śrāvastīmanuprāptaḥ | śrāvastyām viharati jetavane'nāthapiṇḍadasyārāme | tatra svidbhagavati prakrānte kośāmbakānāṃ bhikṣūṇāṃ vaiśālakānāṃ ca bhikṣūṇāmevaṃrūpaḥ īryāpathah saṃvṛttah | pūrvabhakte'pi piṇḍapātaṃ praviśanti paścādbhakte dvāraṃ baddhvā kalahaṃ kurvanti | tathā eṣāṃ tayā īryayā aryayā vipratipattyā dvādaśavarṣāṇi samatikrāntāni | kośāmbakābrāhmaṇagṛhapatayaḥ saṃsthāgāre parasparaṃ saṃjalpaṃ kartumārabdhāḥ | vayaṃ bhavanto'tyarthaṃ bhagavato'bhiprasannāścīvarapiṇḍapātaśaynāsanaglānapratyayabhaiṣajyapariṣkāraiḥ | atha ca punarbhagavatāsya gocarasya dvādaśavarṣāṇi parityaktasyādyatvenāpi nāgacchatīti | apare kathayanti | bhavanto bhagavānihāgamiṣyatīti yatredānīṃ kośāmbakānāṃ bhikṣūṇāmiyamevaṃrūpā īryā caryā vipratipattiḥ | pūrvabhakte piṇḍapātaṃ praviśanti paścādbhakte dvāraṃ baddhvā kaliṃ kurvantīti | apare tvāhuḥ | nāyaṃ bhavanta eṣām doṣaḥ kiṃ tvasmākaṃ ye vayamebhyaḥ piṇḍapātaṃ prayacchāmaḥ vāksaṃbhāṣaṇaṃ vā | etaṃ vayaṃ kriyākāraṃ vyavasthāpayāmaḥ | naiṣāṃ kenacitpaṇḍako deyo vāksaṃbhāṣaṇam ceti | te kriyākāraṃ kṛtvā vyavasthitāḥ | yāvadaparasmin divase kośāmbakā bhikṣavaḥ piṇḍapātaṃ praviṣṭāḥ | na kenacidābhāṣitā nāpi piṇḍako dattaḥ | te yathā dhautakenaiva pātreṇa piṇḍapātaṃ praviṣṭāstathā dhautakenaiva niṣkrāntāḥ | alabdhvaikāṃ bhikṣāmapi tatastaiḥ saṃbhūyaḥ kośāmbakā brāhmaṇagṛhapataya uktāḥ | bhavanto'yuktaṃ tāvadyatpiṇḍapātaṃ na prayacchatha | arthaparikṣaya iti | kimasmābhiraparāddhaṃ yadvācamapi na paryacchatheti | te kathayanti | yūyamapi śramaṇāḥ śākyaputrīyā ityātmānaḥ pratijānīdhve | yeṣāṃ śāstā īryayā vipratipattyā anāttamanā anabhirāddhaḥ | upari vihāyasā prakrāntaḥ | dvādaśavarṣāṇi samatikrāntānyadyatvenāpi nāgacchatīti | te tūṣṇīmeva sthitāḥ | teṣāṃ tu sakāśamupasaṃkramya kathayanti | āyuṣmantaḥ sthāne vayamebhiravasāditāh | yaḥ pṛthivyām skhalati sa tāneva niḥśṛtyottiṣṭhati | sarvathā śrāvastyāṃ gacchamaḥ | bhagavantaṃ kṣamayāmo bhikṣusaṃghaṃ ceti |