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Adapted from the Translation by T. W. Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg
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THE MAHAVAGGA
FIRST KHANDHAKA(THE FORMATION OF THE ORDER OF BHIKKHUS)
Chapter-71 : Offence for Ordinating Gravely Afflicted.
1. At that time the Bhikkhus conferred the pabbajja ordination on a person whose hands were cut off, on a person whose feet were cut off, whose hands and feet were cut off, whose ears were cut off, whose nose was cut off, whose ears and nose were cut off, whose fingers were cut off, whose thumbs were cut off, whose tendons (of the feet) were cut, who had hands like a snake's hood, who was a hump-back, or a dwarf, or a person that had a goitre, that had been branded, that had been scourged, on a proclaimed robber, on a person that had elephantiasis, that was afflicted with bad illness, that gave offence (by any deformity) to those who saw him, on a one-eyed person, on a person with a crooked limb, on a lame person, on a person that was paralysed on one side, on a cripple, on a person weak from age, on a blind man, on a dumb man, on a deaf man, on a blind and dumb man, on a blind and deaf man, on a deaf and dumb man, on a blind, deaf and dumb man.
They told this thing to the Lord Buddha.
'Let no person, O Bhikkhus(Monks), whose hands are cut off, receive the pabbajja ordination. Let no person whose feet are cut off, receive the pabbajja ordination, &c. (each of the above cases being here repeated). He who confers the pabbajja ordination (on such persons), is guilty of a dukkata offence.'
Here end the thirty-two cases in which pabbajja. is forbidden.
End of the ninth Bhanavara.
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