Nuns’ Expiation (Pācittiya) 32 (PLI-TV-BI-VB-PC32)

… at Sāvatthī in the Jeta Grove in Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Now at that time two nuns shared one covering-cloth. People, engaged in touring the dwelling-place … see Bi-Pc.31.1. Instead of one couch read one covering-cloth … “… this rule of training:

“Whatever two nuns should share one covering-cloth, there is an offence of expiation.”

Whatever means: … nun is to be understood in this case.

Nuns mean: they are called ordained.

Two should share one covering-cloth means: if having covered themselves with that, they put that on, there is an offence of expiation.

If they think that it is one covering-cloth when it is one covering-cloth (and) share it, there is an offence of expiation. If they are in doubt as to whether it is one covering-cloth … If they think they are different covering-cloths when it is one covering-cloth … offence of expiation. If they think that they are different cloths when it is one covering, there is an offence of wrong-doing. If they think that it is one covering-cloth when they are different coverings, there is an offence of wrong-doing. If they think that it is one covering-cloth when they are different covering-cloths, there is an offence of wrong-doing. If they are in doubt as to whether they are different covering-cloths, there is an offence of wrong-doing. If they think that they are different covering-cloths when they are different covering-cloths, there is no offence.

There is no offence if they lie down having pointed out an arrangement; if they are mad, if they are the first wrong-doers.

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