Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c22.14

c22.14

¹ It would seem from the texts [*Mahāv.*, i, 6, 7] that the original disciples of the Buddha such as the Five Mendicants, Yasa, and his companions numbering sixty, received the two ordinations together, but an interval between them was prescribed for the later adherents of the church converted by these original disciples, though even in these cases exceptions were allowed. There was an exception even in Asoka's time in the case of the lay devotee Bhaṇḍuka (*Dīpav.*, xii, 62 f.].