Samyuktagama (Sanskrit fragments) 276.7

276.7

爾時，世尊知摩訶波闍波提比丘尼去已，告諸比丘：「我年已老邁，不復堪能為諸比丘尼說法，汝等諸比丘僧，今日諸宿德上座，當教授諸比丘尼。」

When he knew Mahāprajāpatī was gone, the Bhagavān told the monks, “Now that I’m advanced in years, I don’t have the ability anymore to teach Dharma to the nuns. Those of you in the assembly of monks who today are senior elders should instruct the nuns.”