Suttavibhanga
It explains all the rules which are contained in Patimokkha by the Buddha in
order to regulate the individual life of the member of the order.
These rules admonished the monks and the nuns to refrain from seven different kinds of offences. These offences are arranged in the Suttavibhanga in a gradual manner starting from grave offences and ending with lighter ones. The punishment given varies with the nature of offence.
The division of offences appears in Vinaya Pitaka:
Parajika rules:
Rules concerning breaking basic code of morality like killing, stealing, false claiming of spiritual attainment and violation of celibacy.
Sanghadisesa:
The offences include matters like misbehaviour of monks with women-folk, greediness of monks pertaining to construction of viharas and cases like creating schism in the sangha etc.
Aniyata:
The rules were formulated to regulate apparent indecent behaviour of the monk with a woman lay follower. Female lay devotee, who is both a stream enterer (sotapanna) and onlooker, is given the power to decide category of offense and accordingly punishment gets decided.
Nissaggiya pacittiya:
These are rules dealing with greedy behaviour of monks and nuns while procuring robes, bowls and rugs from the laity class.
Pacittiya:
The rules to prevent monks and nuns from becoming non-virtuous. The offences include using abusive language, speaking ill of others, sleeping with non-monks, digging the ground etc.
Patidesaniya:
Offences are related with food, like accepting food from nun, begging food from poor family etc.
Sekhiya:
The rules are mainly concerned with the proper mode of imparting dhamma and behavior of monks or nuns when invited to a laity‘s house.
The Khandhakas:-
It consists of the two books- Mahavagga and Culavagga. For the smooth functioning of the sangha, certain actions were supposed to be carried out jointly like admission and ordination processes, holding of fortnightly confession meetings, observation of rain retreats, etc.
The Parivara:-
The Parivara consisting of nineteen sections serves as a kind of manual of instructions about content of Vinaya. It is compiled in the form of catechism, enabling the reader to make an enlightening survey of the Vinaya pitaka.
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