Adhikaraṇa-Samathās
“Venerables, these seven principles for the settling of legal issues come up for recitation.
For the settling and resolving of legal issues whenever they arise there is:
Resolution face-to-face to be applied;
Resolution through recollection to be granted;
Resolution because of past insanity to be granted;
Acting according to what has been admitted;
Majority decision;
Further penalty;
Covering over as if with grass.
Recited, venerable ones, are the seven rules for the deciding of legal questions. Concerning them, I ask the venerable ones: I hope that you are quite pure in this matter? And a second time I ask: I hope that you are quite pure in this matter? And a third time I ask: I hope that you are quite pure in this matter? The venerable ones are quite pure in this matter, therefore they are silent. Thus do I understand this.
p_2V_2093Ime kho panāyasmanto satta adhikaraṇasamathā dhammā uddesaṁ āgacchanti.
Uppannuppannānaṁ adhikaraṇānaṁ samathāya vūpasamāya
p_2V_2094, msdiv655Sammukhāvinayo dātabbo,
Sativinayo dātabbo,
Amūḷhavinayo dātabbo,
Paṭiññāya kāretabbaṁ,
Yebhuyyasikā,
Tassapāpiyasikā
Tiṇavatthārakoti. (1--7: 221 –227)
p_2V_2095Uddiṭṭhā kho, āyasmanto, satta adhikaraṇasamathā dhammā. Tatthāyasmante pucchāmi—“Kaccittha parisuddhā"? Dutiyampi pucchāmi—“Kaccittha parisuddhā"? Tatiyampi pucchāmi—“Kaccittha parisuddhā"? Parisuddhetthāyasmanto, tasmā tuṇhī, evametaṁ dhārayāmīti.