Vinaya (2): The Mahavagga
by T. W. Rhys Davids | 1881 | 156,382 words
The Mahavagga (part of the Vinaya collection) includes accounts of Gautama Buddha’s and the ten principal disciples’ awakenings, as well as rules for ordination, rules for reciting the Patimokkha during uposatha days, and various monastic procedures....
Mahavagga, Khandaka 1, Chapter 69
1. At that time the Bhikkhus conferred, the upasampadā ordination on a person that had no upajjhāya.
They told this thing to the Blessed One.
“Let no one, O Bhikkhus, who has no upajjhāya, receive the upasampadā ordination. He who confers the upasampadā ordination (on such a person), commits a dukkaṭa offence.”
2. At that time the Bhikkhus conferred the upasampadā ordination with the Saṃgha as upajjhāya.
They told this thing to the Blessed One.
“Let no one receive the upasampadā ordination with the Saṃgha as upajjhāya. He who confers the upasampadā ordination (in such a way), commits a dukkaṭa offence.”
3. At that time the Bhikkhus conferred the upasampadā ordination with a number of Bhikkhus[1] as upajjhāya (&c., as before).
4. At that time the Bhikkhus conferred the upasampadā ordination with a eunuch as upajjhāya, &c.; with a person that had furtively attached himself (to the Saṃgha) as upajjhāya; with a person that was gone over to the Titthiyas as upajjhāya; with an animal as upajjhāya; with a person that was guilty of matricide as upajjhāya; with a person that was guilty of parricide as upajjhāya; with a person that had murdered an Arahat as upajjhāya; with a person that had violated a Bhikkhunī as upajjhāya; with a person that had caused a schism among the Saṃgha as upajjhāya; with a person that had shed (a Buddha's) blood as upajjhāya; with a hermaphrodite as upajjhāya.
They told this thing to the Blessed One.
'Let no one,' &c. (as in the first clause).
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
I.e. not with the whole fraternity residing at that place, but with a part of it.