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 52
At that time the venerable Upananda, of the Sakya tribe, had two novices, Kaṇḍaka and Mahaka; these committed sodomy with each other. The Bhikkhus were annoyed, &c.: 'How can novices abandon themselves to such bad conduct?'
They told this thing to the Blessed One, &c.
“Let no one, O Bhikkhus, ordain two novices. He who does, is guilty of a dukkaṭa offence[1].”
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
This seems very unpractical: and the rule is accordingly practically abrogated again by chapter 55.