Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c10.t1.26

c10.t1.26

∗ According to the original custom every one then, as a matter of course, said what he had to say in reply to this appeal, and when doubts existed, these were explained before the Order. The "Khandhaka Texts" here adopted apparently, exactly as we have already (note p. 373) seen they did in the confessional celebration, the standpoint of a later age. No one, it is said in this connection, who is under the burden of guilt, can take part in the solemnization of the "Invitation;" what every one has to cast up to the other, must be previously brought to an issue.—Mah. iv, 6; 16,