The Discourse about the Great Emancipation

The Fourth Chapter for Recitation
scorned at. Without having rejoiced over it, without having
scorned it, after learning those words and syllables well, they
should be laid alongside the Discourses, they should be compared
with the Discipline.
If, when these are laid alongside the Discourses, compared with the
Discipline, they do not fit in with the Discourses, they do not
compare (well) with the Discipline, you may here come to this
conclusion: ‘Certainly this is not the Gracious One's word, it is not
well learned by that Community,’ and, monks, you should abandon
it. If when these are laid alongside the Discourses, compared with
the Discipline, they do fit in with the Discourses, they do compare
(well) with the Discipline, you may here come to this conclusion:
‘Certainly this is the Gracious One's word, it is well-learned by that
Community.’ This, monks, is the second Great Referral you should
bear in mind.
3) Here, monks, a monk might speak like this: ‘In a certain dwelling
place live many elders, very learned, who have learned the
traditions, who are bearers of the Teaching, bearers of the
Discipline, bearers of the Tabulation, 125 I have heard this directly
from those elders, directly I learned it: “This is the Teaching, this
125 Commenting on this phrase the Commentary to AN (PTS 2:189) says:
Dhammadharā ti Suttantapiṭakadharā, Vinayadharā ti Vinayapiṭakadharā,
Mātikādharā ti Dvemātikādharā. The last item in defined therefore as being
bearers of both the Bhikkhu- and Bhikkhuṇī-Pātimokkhā.
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