四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔 1.409

1.409

"First, have you not committed an offense of extreme gravity?" If he answers: "No," one tells him: "You may not know this offense; it means having previously received the Buddha's precepts and then committing unchastity, theft, killing, or lying. One who has done these four must not receive [the precepts]. Do you not have this?" If he answers: "No," one tells him further: "If you do not recognize or understand it, you must not answer falsely. Second, when you were a layperson, did you not defile a pure-precept bhikṣuṇī?" He answers: "No." "Third, when you were a layperson or a śrāmaṇera, did you not secretly listen to their upoṣadha recitation and karman, falsely pretending to be a bhikṣu?" He answers: "No." "Fourth, having previously been a tīrthika, did you not come to take refuge and receive the precepts, and afterward return to being a tīrthika, and now come again?" He answers: "No." "Fifth, are you not one of the five kinds of paṇḍaka (explain them by their names)?" If he answers: "No." "Sixth, have you not killed your father?" "Seventh, have you not killed your mother?" "Eighth, have you not killed an arhat?" "Ninth, have you not disrupted the saṃgha?" "Tenth, did you not, with an evil mind, shed the blood of a Buddha's body?" To each, he answers: "No." "Eleventh, are you not a son of the devas or a son of the asuras—called a non-human—who has transformed into human form to come and receive the precepts?" He answers: "No." "Twelfth, are you not among the nāgas, beasts, and the like capable of transformation, who has transformed into human form to come and receive [the precepts]?" He answers: "No." "Thirteenth, does your present body not bear both male and female characteristics?" If he answers: "No," one should praise him, saying: "Good son! The impediments have been asked. Since none of the thirteen is present, you may receive the precepts."