This table compares the Patimokkha rules related to the requirement of completing the two-year training prior to full ordination. The first row of rules concerns full ordination for sikkhamanas. The second row concerns women who were married before (gihigata). The third row concerns maidens (kumaribhuta). See Gihigata & Kumaribhuta for further comparisons of these terms.
To read the background stories for these three rules and compare them with their parallel versions, see:
- Pali Pac 63 Vibhanga and parallels
- Pali Pac 66 Vibhanga and parallels
- Pali Pac 72 Vibhanga and parallels
| Pali Pac* (63, 66, 72) | Lokottaravada Pac (—, 102, 98) | Mahasanghika Pac (—, 102, 98) | Mahisasaka Pac (113, —, —) | Sarvastivada Pac (111, —, 121) | Dharmaguptaka Pac (—, 125, 122 & 123) | Mulasarvastivada (Chinese) Pac (119, 109, —) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 63. Should any bhikkhuni give vutthapana [full ordination] to a sikkhamana who has not trained for two years in the six precepts, this entails a pacittiya. | 113. Should any bhikkhuni give full ordination to a nun who is training in the precepts [學戒尼 sikkhamana] and who has not completed her two years of training, this entails a pacittiya. | 119. Should any bhikkhuni, knowing that a female [sikkhamana] is not fully trained for two years in the six dhammas and six anudhammas, give her the full ordination, [this entails a] pacittiya. | ||||
| 66. Should any bhikkhuni give vutthapana [full ordination] to a gihigata fully twelve years old but who has not trained for two years in the six precepts, this entails a pacittiya. | 102. Though she has been taught the training, if that gihigata has not fulfilled the training, should one give upasampada, this entails a pacittiya. | 102. Should any bhikkhuni give full ordination to a married woman who has received the training in the precepts but has not completed her training, [this entails a] pacittiya. | 111. Should any bhikkhuni bring up as one of the assembly [give full ordination to] a disciple who has not trained for two years in the precepts, [this entails a] pacittiya. | 125. To ordain a ten-year-old married woman, the bhikkhuni [should first] give her the two-year training in the precepts, [then] give her full ordination when [she is] fully twelve years old with consent [sangha kamma]. Should any bhikkhuni give full ordination [when she is] less than twelve years old, [this entails a] pacittiya. | 109. Should any bhikkhuni, knowing that a married woman is fully twelve years old, give her full ordination when she has not given her the correct training [正學法], [this entails a] pacittiya. | |
| 72. Should any bhikkhuni give vutthapana [full ordination] to a kumaribhuta [maiden] fully twenty years old but who has not trained for two years in the six precepts, this entails a pacittiya. | 98. Though she has been taught the training, if that maiden has not fulfilled the training, should one give upasampada, this entails a pacittiya. | 98. Should any bhikkhuni give full ordination to [one]** who has received the training in the precepts but who has not completed her training, [this entails a] pacittiya. | 121. Should any bhikkhuni bring up as one of the assembly [give full ordination to] a maiden who is fully twenty years old who has not trained for two years in the six precepts, this entails a pacittiya. | 122. Should any bhikkhuni, when she has not given the two-year training in the precepts to an eighteen- year-old maiden, give her full ordination when she is fully twenty years old, [this entails a] pacittiya. 123. Should any bhikkhuni give the two-year training in the precepts to an eighteen- year-old maiden and not give [teach] her the six rules, [and then] give her full ordination when [she is] fully twenty years old, [this entails a] pacittiya. |
* Pacittiya
** For discussion of why this likely refers to a maiden, see Evolution of Rules: Mahasangika.