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Vinayapiṭaka · Bhikkhunī Vibhaṅga · Vol. 3 · Section 302

[302] **"Whatever"** means: whoever, of whatever sort … . **"Bhikkhunī"** means … this is the bhikkhunī intended in this meaning. **"Yarn" (sutta)** means the six kinds of yarn: linen (khoma), cotton (kappāsika), silk (koseyya), wool (kambala), hemp (sāṇa), and bhaṅga (coarse/mixed fiber). **"Should spin" (kanteyya)** means: she spins it herself. In the act [of undertaking] there is an offence of wrong conduct (dukkaṭa); with each drawing back and forth [of the thread], there is an offence entailing expiation (pācittiya).

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

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