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X, 25, 3.
ON THE DUTIES OF BHIKKHUNÎs.
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"And thus, O Bhikkhus, is she to be appointed : First that Bhikkhuni ought to be asked (whether she be willing to undertake the duty). After she has been asked, a learned and competent Bhikkhunt ought to lay the motion before the Samgha, saying :
"" Let the Samgha, venerable Ladies, hear me. If it seem meet to the Samgha, let the Samgha depute N. N. as a companion to M.M. That is the motion.
““Let the Samgha,"' [&c., as usual, to the end of the Kammavâkâ.]
2. Then that companion Bhikkhunt thought: "Now how should I conduct myself towards this child ?'
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
'I prescribe that the Bhikkhunts, O Bhikkhus, conduct themselves towards that child precisely as they would towards other men, save only as regards the sleeping under the same roof?.'
3. Now at that time a certain Bhikkhuni, who had been guilty of a grievous offence, was living subject to the Mânatta penance. Then that Bhikkhunt thought: It is not permissible for me to live alone, and it is not permissible for any other Bhikkhunt to live with me. What now ought I to do?'
They told this matter to the Blessed One. 'I allow the Bhikkhunis, O Bhikkhus, to depute any one Bhikkhunf, and to give her as a companion to that Bhikkhuni. And thus, O Bhikkhus, ought
i Sâgâram; on which Buddhaghosa has no note.
• For what this implied, see Kullavagga II, 1, 2, and II, 6, 1, and compare the 5th Garudhamma above, X, 1, 4.
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