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X, 17,4.
ON THE DUTIES OF BHIKKHUNÎs.
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'I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, that they be instructed aside, and then questioned in the midst of the assembly.
And thus, O Bhikkhus, ought they to be instructed :-First they ought to be made to choose an instructor 1; when they have chosen an instructor their robes and bowl must be shown to them : “This is your alms-bowl, this is your waist-cloth, this is your upper garment, this is your under garment, this is your vest, this is your bathing dress 2. Go and stand in such and such a place.”'
3. Ignorant and incompetent (Bhikkhunis) instructed them, and they became disconcerted, perplexed, and unable to answer.
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
• They are not to be instructed, O Bhikkhus, by unlearned, incompetent Bhikkhunis. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata. I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, that they be instructed by learned and competent Bhikkhunis.
4. Bhikkhunis not appointed (to the office of doing so) instructed them.
They told this matter to the Blessed One. "Let no one, O Bhikkhus, instruct them without
Upaggham. It should be observed that this expression is found only here, and in the corresponding section for the Bhikkhus, at Mahâvagga I, 76, 3. Elsewhere, throughout, Upagghầya is the form used for Bhikkhus, and Pavattinî for Bhikkhunîs. The word is probably here also, as in the Mahavagga I, 76, 3, to be taken as a masculine.
These last two are omitted in the corresponding section for the Bhikkhus, Mahavagga I, 76, 3. On Samka k khikam, see the note of the Old Commentator on the 96th Bhikkhunî Påkittiya, and on Udaka - sâlika, the same on the 22nd Bhikkhuni Pakittiya.
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