[191] At that time the Buddha, the Blessed One, was dwelling at Sāvatthī, in the Jeta Grove, in Anāthapiṇḍika's park. Now at that time a man who was a relative of a bhikkhunī (bhikkhunī) who was a pupil (antevāsinī) of Bhaddā Kāpilānī had come from a village to Sāvatthī on some business or other. Then that bhikkhunī, thinking, "It has been prohibited by the Blessed One to stand together with a man, one with one, or to converse with him in a concealed place," stood together with that very man, one with one, in the open, and conversed with him.
Those bhikkhunīs who were of few wishes … they criticized, denounced, and spread it about, saying: "How indeed can a bhikkhunī stand together with a man, one with one, in the open, and converse with him?" …
"Is it true, as they say, bhikkhus, that a bhikkhunī stands together with a man, one with one, in the open, and converses with him?"
"It is true, Blessed One."
The Buddha, the Blessed One, rebuked them: "How indeed, bhikkhus, can a bhikkhunī stand together with a man, one with one, in the open, and converse with him? This, bhikkhus, is not for the confidence of those who are without confidence … And thus, bhikkhus, let the bhikkhunīs recite this training rule (sikkhāpada):
"Whatever bhikkhunī should stand together with a man, one with one, in the open, or should converse with him, incurs a pācittiya."
[Variant readings noted in the Siam Raṭṭha edition: ¹ M., Yu.: koṭṭhaḷiyā. ² M., Yu.: yo koci. ³ dutiyo.]
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.