僧羯磨 3.59

3.59

Procedure for granting the Mindfulness Vinaya (smṛti-vinaya): (At that time, when bhikṣus had not in fact committed a grave offense—pārājika, saṃghāvaśeṣa, or sthūlātyaya—other bhikṣus all claimed they had committed a grave offense. They asked him, saying: "Do you remember committing a grave offense or not?" He did not remember committing it, and answered, saying: "I do not remember committing such an offense." He then said to the bhikṣus: "Venerables! Do not repeatedly interrogate me." The bhikṣus nonetheless persisted in interrogating him without ceasing. The Buddha said: "I allow the saṃgha to perform a jñapticaturtha-karman of the Mindfulness Vinaya for him." The petition and enactment are as in the text.)