僧羯磨 3.30

3.30

The procedure of the karman for prevarication (At that time, there was a bhikṣu who had committed an offense. When the bhikṣus asked him, "Do you know for yourself whether you committed an offense or not?" he immediately responded to the bhikṣus with unrelated matters: "To whom are you speaking? What matter are you talking about? What principle are you discussing? Are you speaking to me? To whom are you speaking? Who committed an offense? From what did the offense arise? I see no offense! Why do you say that I have an offense?" The Buddha said: "From this day forward, I permit that once the ñatti has been made, it is termed prevarication." One should make the ñatti thus:)