四分律比丘含注戒本 2.579

2.579

Bhikṣuṇīs commit the same offense. There is no offense: if the fact is really so and one did not act intentionally—[for example,] he was not born at such a time, and fearing that later he will have doubt and remorse, receiving others' offerings for no reason and receiving the salutations and veneration of senior bhikṣus, one therefore tells him, "You were not born at such a time; as other people were born [then], they know you were not born at such a time"; if the fact is really so, and he does not have that many years [since ordination], and fearing that later he will have doubt and remorse, receiving others' offerings and veneration, one tells him, "You do not have that many years; as other bhikṣus know, you have not reached that many years"; if the fact is really so, as when his age is not full twenty years or there was a dissentient community within the sīmā, and fearing that later he will have doubt and remorse, receiving offerings and salutations, one tells him so that he knows, in order for him to return to his original place to take ordination again; if the fact is really so, the motion was not properly made, the karman was not properly performed, or it was an unlawful dissentient community, and fearing that later he will have doubt and remorse, receiving offerings and salutations, one tells him so that he knows, in order for him to return to his original place to take ordination again; if the fact is really so, he has committed a pārājika or up to speaking malicious words, and fearing that later he will have doubt and remorse, receiving people's offerings and receiving the salutations of precept-observing bhikṣus, wishing to let him know so as to confess according to the Dharma, one therefore tells him so that he knows the offense, up to speaking malicious words; furthermore, if by a coarse and careless nature, not knowing proper speech, one simply says, "What you have said is claiming for yourself the dharmas of a superior person." If by mistake or in jest, there is no offense.