四分律刪補隨機羯磨 2.120

2.120

(The root Vinaya says: 'Having made a jñapti-dvitīya to appoint one person, since she would walk alone without protection, they further appoint two or three persons as companions to go to the monastery of the monks, to the monk entrusted.' By principle, [the monks] should also appoint someone to receive them. That nun who is entrusted with instruction should state the request in full, and on the sixteenth day, go again to the monks' monastery to ask whether it is approved. If she receives the abbreviated instruction, she returns to her own monastery, sounds the mallet to assemble the community of nuns, announces the consent of those who did not come, and then this envoy nun, as told by the saṃgha, fully proclaims the command of the saṃgha among the community of nuns; the nuns join their palms and receive it on the crowns of their heads. Although the *Vinaya* lacks this text, based on the principle of the text of the *Mahāsāṃghika-vinaya*, it is like this. Only if both communities, monks and nuns, each have a full five persons or more, is this rite performed. Thus the root Vinaya says: 'If the community is incomplete, or if it is not harmonious, when the time comes, they merely pay obeisance and inquire after their health.')