Vinaya (2): The Mahavagga
by T. W. Rhys Davids | 1881 | 156,382 words
The Mahavagga (part of the Vinaya collection) includes accounts of Gautama Buddha’s and the ten principal disciples’ awakenings, as well as rules for ordination, rules for reciting the Patimokkha during uposatha days, and various monastic procedures....
Mahavagga, Khandaka 1, Chapter 37
“In six cases, O Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu should not confer, &c.[1]”
End of the sixteen times[2] six cases concerning the admissibility of upasampadā.
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
Chap. 37 is exactly identical with chap. 36. 2-15, but for the sixth case, which, throughout chap. 37, is added each time at the end of the five cases given in chap. 36, 'When he has not completed the tenth year (after his upasampadā);' and respectively, 'When he has completed ten years or more than ten years (after his upasampadā).'
[2]:
It should be, 'Fourteen times.'