[512] [Summary verses (uddāna) of the Khandhaka:]
On the uposatha, however long [he was bidden], the evil bhikkhu did not depart;
he was cast out by Moggallāna — a marvel in the Conqueror's teaching.
The [gradual] slope and the gradual training; the Dhamma standing fast, without overstepping;
the Saṅgha casts up a corpse; and the flowing rivers abandon [their former names];
They flow on; they attain final Nibbāna; and liberation of a single taste;
the Dhamma and Vinaya too is abundant [in treasures]; the noble persons, as beings abide [in the great ocean] —
having made the ocean the simile, he established the excellence in the teaching.
On the uposatha, the Pātimokkha; "no one knows about us";
they raise objection beforehand; one, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight, and nine, and ten [grounds for suspension].
Virtue, conduct, and view, and livelihood — in the fourfold division;
pārājika and saṅghādi[sesa], pācittiya, pāṭidesanīya,
and dukkaṭa — in the fivefold division; and failure of virtue and of conduct,
by what is not done and by what is done — in the sixfold division, according to the method.
Pārājika and saṅghādi[sesa], with thullaccaya and pācittiya,
and pāṭidesanīya, and dukkaṭa, and dubbhāsita [— the sevenfold];
Failure of virtue and of conduct, and of livelihood, by [each such] failure —
eight, by what is not done and what is done; and virtue, conduct, and view,
by what is not done, by what is done, and by what is both done and not done —
thus the ninefold are declared, by one who knows in accordance with what really is (yathābhūta).
One [guilty of] pārājika; [the talk of it] left unfinished; one who has disavowed [the training], and just so [talk of it unfinished];
he joins in [the concord]; he retracts; and by talk of retraction;
and failure of virtue and of conduct, likewise by failure of view,
[what is] seen, heard, or suspected — know that as tenfold.
A bhikkhu himself sees a bhikkhu; another announces it to him;
or he declares it to him plainly — he suspends the Pātimokkha.
[The assembly] rises up because of a danger: king, robbers, fire, water,
humans, non-humans, beasts of prey, and creeping things, life,
and the holy life — of these ten, or in any one of them;
and know the legitimate and the illegitimate [suspensions] according to the course [laid down].
Timely, true, connected with benefit; "shall I gain [supporters]?", "will there be [strife]?";
loving-kindness of body and speech, great learning, and both [Pātimokkhas].
One should admonish with what is timely, with what is true, gently, with what is beneficial, and with loving-kindness;
one made remorseful by an illegitimate [charge] — just so too should one dispel [his remorse].
Of one who legitimately admonishes and of one admonished, one should dispel the remorse.
Compassion, sympathy for welfare, and rehabilitation also held foremost —
the practice for the admonisher was proclaimed by the Fully Awakened One;
to be established in truth and in freedom from anger is the natural duty of the one admonished.
The Bhikkhunī Khandhaka (Chapter on Bhikkhunīs)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.