Manual of Indian Buddhism c6.s2.4

c6.s2.4

¹ The circumstances disqualifying persons for admission and ordination are minutely expounded MV. I, 39-76; cp. HARDY E. M. 17 ff. Vyu. § 271. Not a few of these disqualifications are merely theoretical; e. g. eunuchs and hermaphrodites are excluded from the Upasampada, as if these physical disabilities were unknown at the Pravrajyā. More than absurd is the exclusion of Snakes; MV. I, 63.