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 44
At that time a certain person who had been punished by scourging had been ordained with the Bhikkhus. People were annoyed, &c.: 'How can these Sakyaputtiya Samaṇas ordain a person that has been punished by scourging?'
They told this thing to the Blessed One.
“Let no one, O Bhikkhus, who has been punished by scourging, receive the pabbajjā ordination. He who confers the pabbajjā ordination (on such a person), is guilty of dukkaṭa offence.”