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X, 3, 1.
ON THE DUTIES OF BHIKKHUNIS.
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should I pursue towards these women of the Sâkya clan?'
Then the Blessed One taught Maha-pagâpati the Gotamt and incited her, and aroused her, and gladdened her with religious discourse ; and she, so taught, incited, aroused, and gladdened, bowed down before the Blessed One, and keeping him on her right hand as she passed him, she departed thence.
Then the Blessed One, in that connexion, delivered a religious discourse, and said to the Bhikkhus,
I allow Bhikkhunts, O Bhikkhus, to receive the u pasampada initiation from Bhikkhus 1.'
2. Now those Bhikkhunfs said to Maha-pagâ pati the Gotami : 'Neither have you received the upasampada initiation, nor have we; for it has thus been laid down by the Blessed One : “ Bhikkhunis are to be initiated by Bhikkhus."
Then Mahâ-pagâ pati the Gotami went to the venerable Ananda, and [repeated their words to him]. And the venerable Ånanda went to the Blessed One, and (repeated them to him].
*In that moment, Ananda, when Maha-pagâ pati the Gotami took upon herself the Eight Chief Rules, that was to her as the upasampa då initiation.'
1. Now Maha-pagâpati the Gotami went up to the place where the venerable Ananda was, and bowed down before him, and stood respectfully on one side.
1 Compare the 6th Garudhamma above, X, 1, 4.
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