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Pvr 1.3

The classes of failure for each offense

1.3 Vipattivāra

from: The Monks’ Analysis

Part one

The classes of failure for each offense

When it comes to the offenses for having sexual intercourse, to how many of the four kinds of failure do they belong? They belong to two kinds of failure: they may be failure in morality; they may be failure in conduct. …

When it comes to the offense for, out of disrespect, defecating, urinating, or spitting in water, to how many of the four kinds of failure does it belong? It belongs to one kind of failure: failure in conduct.

The classes of failure for each offense, the third, are finished.

Translation: English (Bhikkhu Brahmali). Source: SuttaCentral / Bilara (public domain, CC0).

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