Early Monastic Buddhism v1.c21.s2.5

v1.c21.s2.5

SECTION III called the Nissaggiyā-pācittiyā contains 30 rules like the Bhikkhu-pātimokkha. It is divided into three sub-sections: patta, cīvara and jātarūpa,¹ (bowl, robe, and gold and silver). Eighteen of these rules contained in the last two sub-sections are identical with those of the Bhikkhu-pātimokkha. Of the remaining twelve, the first prohibits nuns from collecting bowls and the second from appropriating a cīvara untimely. The third condemns indecision regarding the exchange of robes. Rules 4-10 prohibit nuns from trying to obtain something which the donee did not intend to give. Rules 11 and 12 limit the price of a nun's warm cīvara to four kaṃsas and that of a cotton cīvara to two and a half kaṃsas.