僧羯磨 1.199

1.199

Poṣadha by Acceleration or Postponement Procedure (The Vinaya states: If there are bhikṣus fond of quarreling and reviling, mutually slandering one another, with tongues like swords, who wish to come here for poṣadha, two or three poṣadhas should be observed. If poṣadha should be held on the fifteenth, it is done on the fourteenth; if it should be held on the fourteenth, it is done on the thirteenth; if it is heard that they are coming today, one should immediately and hastily hold poṣadha; if it is heard that they have already entered the boundary, one should go outside the boundary to hold poṣadha. If one can do so, it is good; if one cannot, one should make a motion to postpone the poṣadha. One makes the motion as follows:)