Nuns’ Expiation (Pācittiya) 83

^{Bi-Pc.83.1.1 BD.3.399} … at Sāvatthī in the Jeta Grove in Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Now at that time nuns ordained two (probationers) in the one year.^[1] As before,^[2] there were not sufficent dwellings. As before^[3] people … ^Vin.4.337 spread it about, saying: “How can these nuns ordain two (probationers) in one year? As before, there are not sufficient dwellings.” Nuns heard these people who … spread it about. Those who were modest nuns … spread it about, saying: … cf. Bi-Pc.82.1 “… this rule of training:

“Whatever nun should ordain two (probationers) in one year, there is an offence of expiation.”

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^Bi-Pc.83.2.1 Whatever means: … nun is to be understood in this case.

One year means: one year.^[4]

Should ordain two (probationers) means: should confer the upasampadā ordination on two (probationers).

If she thinks: “I will ordain two (probationers),” and looks about for a group or … Bi-Pc.61.2 … there is an offence of wrong-doing for the group and for the woman teacher.

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^Bi-Pc.83.2.2 There is no offence is she ordains in alternate years^[5]; if she is mad, if she is the first wrong-doer.

The Eighth Division: that on a maiden.^[6]

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

Vin-a.945 says “she ordained two (probationers) in one year in alternate years.”

[2]:

tath’ eva—i.e., in Bi-Pc.82.

[3]:

tath’ eva—i.e., in Bi-Pc.82.

[4]:

ekavassan ti ekaṃ saṃvaccharaṃ.

[5]:

Nothing to show whether the notion of “two (probationers)” is dropped here or not.

[6]:

N.B. thirteen Pācittiyas in this Division, and also in the next.