四分律刪補隨機羯磨 2.326

2.326

(It is strictly necessary to have five persons or more to serve as the receivers of the repentance. In relinquishing and forfeiting amidst the saṃgha, there are three aspects: first, explaining the relinquishment of property, which means departing from the conditions of the offense; second, explaining the relinquishment of the mental attachment, which means departing from the cause of the offense; third, explaining the relinquishment of the offense, which eliminates the karma of birth and death. These three relinquishments are the cardinal route of the repentance method, whose doctrinal principles are comprehensively sufficient.)