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GACCHĀCĀRA PRAKĪRNAKA : 39
126.
O'Gautama ! the nuns who are ever-ready to indulge in violence towards the six categories of the living, who indulge in gossip in the name of religious discourses, who order the householders about (for the jobs they are supposed to do themselves), who make use of their (the householders') seats and beds and who maintain intimate relations with them are not the true nuns.
127.
The senior nun who treats her own disciple nuns and those of the other senior nuns who come to them for studying as equal, who does not neglect to motivate her junior nuns, who is endowed with the qualities of the head nun, who has the noble qualities to influence the gathering (of monks, nuns, laymen and laywomen followers) (possesses the ability to become the head nun).
128.
The senior nun who is learned, who is generally humble and respectful towards the gathering of nuns but who awards severe punishments when the occasion demands, who is always engaged in scriptural studies and meditation, who shelters her flock and maintains an appropriate collection of clothes and other monastic equipage for her group possesses the ability to become the head nun.
129.
O' Gautama ! what is the use of staying in that monastic group where the nuns enter into arguments with the monks and, getting furious, indulge in untoward talk? That is, there is nu use of staying in such a monastic group.
130.
O'Gautama! where the nuns stay behind the head nun and speak to the canon-learned monks in humble words even when there is occasion for annoyance is the true Gaccha.
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