Dighanikaya 0.66

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Kiṃ panettha paṭhamapārājike kiñci apanetabbaṃ vā pakkhipitabbaṃ vā atthi natthīti? Apanetabbaṃ natthi. Buddhassa hi bhagavato bhāsite apanetabbaṃ nāma natthi. Na hi tathāgatā ekabyañjanampi niratthakaṃ vadanti. Sāvakānaṃ pana devatānaṃ vā bhāsite apanetabbampi hoti, taṃ dhammasaṅgāhakattherā apanayiṃsu. Pakkhipitabbaṃ pana sabbatthāpi atthi, tasmā yaṃ yattha pakkhipituṃ yuttaṃ, taṃ pakkhipiṃsuyeva. Kiṃ pana tanti? ‘Tena samayenā’ti vā, ‘tena kho pana samayenā’ti vā, ‘atha khoti vā’, ‘evaṃ vutteti’ vā, ‘etadavocā’ti vā, evamādikaṃ sambandhavacanamattaṃ. Evaṃ pakkhipitabbayuttaṃ pakkhipitvā pana – ‘‘idaṃ paṭhamapārājika’’nti ṭhapesuṃ. Paṭhamapārājike saṅgahamārūḷhe pañca arahantasatāni saṅgahaṃ āropitanayeneva gaṇasajjhāyamakaṃsu – ‘‘tena samayena buddho bhagavā verañjāyaṃ viharatī’’ti. Tesaṃ sajjhāyāraddhakāleyeva sādhukāraṃ dadamānā viya mahāpathavī udakapariyantaṃ katvā akampittha.

Now, here in the first pārājika, was there anything to be removed or to be added? There was nothing to be removed. For in what was spoken by the Buddha, the Blessed One, there is nothing to be removed. Indeed, the Tathāgatas do not utter even a single syllable in vain. But in what was spoken by disciples or by deities there is something to be removed, and that the elders who were the council reciters removed. But additions were [needed] everywhere; therefore, whatever was fitting to add in any place, that they certainly added. What was that? Merely connecting words, such as ‘at that time,’ ‘at that time, however,’ ‘then,’ ‘when this was said,’ ‘he said this,’ and so forth. Having thus added what was fitting to be added, they established: ‘This is the first pārājika.’ When the first pārājika had been incorporated into the council, the five hundred arahants conducted a communal recitation according to the manner in which it had been incorporated: ‘At that time the Buddha, the Blessed One, was dwelling in Verañjā.’ Just when they began the recitation, the great earth, bounded by water, trembled as if giving approval.