ABSTRACT
Now, venerable Sirs, it is by your silence, thai I shall know whether you are pure. A s to •-.£<:!> onequestion put there must be an answer, so, in such x. meeting as this, each question is put 1 ai-mm*v a?- three times. Then if any Bhikkhu, when it-ha?- bee. three times put, knowingly omit to declare a lau) incurred, be is guilty of uttering a conscious IV.. Venerable Sirs, the uttering of a deliberate I if Has been declared by the Blessed One to be a condition hurtful (to spiritual progress)8. Therefore a fault, if there be one, should be declared by that Bhikkhu who remembers it, and desires to be cleansed therefrom. l7or a fault, when declared, shall be light to him.
