Mahavagga, Khandaka 3, Chapter 13

1. At that time the Saṃgha at Sāvatthi had made an agreement that nobody should receive the pabbajjā ordination during the rainy season. A grandson of Visākhā Migāramātā^[1] went to the Bhikkhus and asked them for the pabbajjā ordination. The Bhikkhus said to him: 'The Saṃgha, friend, has made an agreement that nobody shall receive the pabbajjā ordination during the rainy season. Wait, friend, as long as the Bhikkhus keep Vassa; when they have concluded the Vassa residence, they will confer on you the pabbajjā ordination.

When those Bhikkhus had concluded the Vassa residence, they said to the grandson of Visākhā Migāramātā: 'Come now, friend, you may receive the pabbajjā ordination.' He replied: 'If I had received the pabbajjā ordination before, reverend Sirs, I should remain (in the religious life), but now, reverend Sirs, I will not receive the pabbajjā ordination.'

2. Visākhā Migāramātā was annoyed, murmured, and became angry (saying), 'How can the noble ones make such an agreement. that nobody shall receive the pabbajjā ordination during the rainy season? At what time ought the duties of the Dhamma not to be performed?'

Some Bhikkhus heard Visākhā Migāramātā, who was annoyed, murmured, and had become angry.

Those Bhikkhus told the thing to the Blessed One. 'Such an agreement, O Bhikkhus, ought not to be made—that nobody shall receive the pabbajjā ordination during the rainy season. He who makes (an agreement like this), commits a dukkaṭa offence.'

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

Visākhā was the most distinguished among the upāsikās, and occupied a place among them similar to that which Anāthapiṇḍika, with whom she is frequently mentioned together, did among the upāsakas. See Dhammapada Aṭṭhak. p. 78, &c.