僧羯磨 3.31

3.31

"Let the saṃgha, bhadantas, listen! This bhikṣu so-and-so has committed an offense. When the bhikṣus asked him, 'Do you now know for yourself whether you committed an offense or not?' this bhikṣu immediately responded to the bhikṣus with unrelated matters, saying, 'To whom are you speaking? What matter are you talking about? What principle are you discussing? Are you speaking for me? Are you speaking for another? Who committed an offense? From what did the offense arise? I see no offense!' If the time has arrived for the saṃgha, and the saṃgha approves, it should declare bhikṣu so-and-so to be engaging in prevarication. This is the ñatti." (Once this ñatti is made, it is termed prevarication. If one prevaricates before the ñatti has been made, all [such acts] are duṣkṛtas; if one prevaricates after the ñatti has been made, all [such acts] are pāyattikas.)