Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c22.12

c22.12

In addition to the foregoing chief limitations of admission to the Order the texts lay down a few minor ones. Persons who were found to be "shameless" and not duly "modest" were not to be admitted. This was to be ascertained by the regulation of keeping the proposed pupils under observation for the first four or five days until it was seen how they behaved to the other Bhikkhus of the Order [*Mahāv.*, i, 72]. Again, persons who "furtively" attached themselves to the Order were also to be kept out [ib., i, 62].