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 43
At that time a certain person who had committed robbery had run away and had become ordained with the Bhikkhus. At the royal palace a proclamation was written: 'Wherever he is seen, he is to be killed.'
The people who saw him, said: 'Here is the proclaimed robber; come, let us kill him' (&c., as in chap. 42).
“Let no proclaimed robber, O Bhikkhus, receive the ±è²¹²ú²ú²¹ÂáÂáÄå ordination. He who confers the ±è²¹²ú²ú²¹ÂáÂáÄå ordination (on such a robber), is guilty of a »å³Ü°ì°ì²¹á¹a ´Ç´Ú´Ú±ð²Ô³¦±ð.â€�