Nuns’ Expiation (Pācittiya) 46

^{Bi-Pc.46.1.1 BD.3.332} … at Sāvatthī in the Jeta Grove in Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Now at that time the nun Thullanandā gave with her own hand solid food and soft food to players and dancers … see Bi-Pc.28.1 … “… this rule of training:

“Whatever nun should give with her own hand solid food or soft food to a householder or to a wanderer or to a female wanderer, there is an offence of expiation.”^[1]

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^Bi-Pc.46.2.1 Whatever means: … nun is to be understood in this case.

Householder means: … see Bi-Pc.28.2 … she who has reached (the stage of a) female wanderer.

Solid food means: excluding the five (kinds of) meals and water for cleansing the teeth, the rest is called solid food.^[2]

Soft food means: the five (kinds of) meals: cooked rice, food made with flour, barley-meal, fish, meat.^[3]

Should give means: if she gives by means of the body or by means of something attached to the body or by means of something that may be cast, ^Vin.4.303 there is an offence of expiation.^[4] If she gives water for cleansing the teeth, there is an offence of wrong-doing.

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^Bi-Pc.46.2.2 There is no offence if she gets (someone) to give (but) does not (herself) give; if she gives depositing it near; if she gives ointment for external (use); if she is mad, if she is the first wrong-doer.^[5]

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

Cf. Monks’ Bu-Pc.41.

[2]:

= Vin.4.92 (BD.2.349) and cf. Vin.4.83 (BD.2.330).

[3]:

= Vin.4.83, Vin.4.92. For notes, see BD.2.330.

[4]:

= Vin.4.92.

[5]:

= Vin.4.92.