1. Now at that time a certain Bhikkhun first abandoned the precepts, and then threw off the robes 1. Afterwards she came back, and asked the Bhikkhuns to admit her into the Order again.
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
'A Bhikkhun ought not, O Bhikkhus, to abandon the precepts. But by having thrown off the robes she is ipso facto incapable of being a Bhikkhun.'
2. Now at that time a certain Bhikkhun, though still wearing the orange-coloured robe, joined a sect of the Titthiyas. Afterwards she came back, and asked the Bhikkhuns to receive her into the Order again.
They told this matter to the Blessed One..
'A Bhikkhun, O Bhikkhus, who, when still wearing the orange-coloured robe, has gone over to the Titthiyas, is not to be received again 2.'
Footnotes
366:1 On the distinction between these two phrases, see the note on Mahvagga Ii, 22, 3.
366:2 For the similar rule in the case of Bhikkhus, see Mahvagga I, 38, 1.