[1348] How do formal acts (kamma) fail with respect to the object (vatthu)?
They give full ordination (upasampadā) to a paṇḍaka: the act is failed as to its object, an act not in accordance with the Dhamma (adhammakamma). They give full ordination to one living in communion by theft (theyyasaṃvāsaka): the act is failed as to its object, an act not in accordance with the Dhamma. They give full ordination to one who has gone over to another sect (titthiyapakkantaka): the act is failed as to its object, an act not in accordance with the Dhamma. They give full ordination to an animal (tiracchānagata): the act is failed as to its object, an act not in accordance with the Dhamma. They give full ordination to a matricide (mātughātaka): the act is failed as to its object, an act not in accordance with the Dhamma. They give full ordination to a patricide (pitughātaka): the act is failed as to its object, an act not in accordance with the Dhamma. They give full ordination to a murderer of an arahant (arahantaghātaka): the act is failed as to its object, an act not in accordance with the Dhamma. They give full ordination to a violator of a bhikkhunī (bhikkhunīdūsaka): the act is failed as to its object, an act not in accordance with the Dhamma. They give full ordination to a schismatic (saṅghabhedaka): the act is failed as to its object, an act not in accordance with the Dhamma. They give full ordination to one who has shed [a Tathāgata's] blood (lohituppādaka): the act is failed as to its object, an act not in accordance with the Dhamma. They give full ordination to a hermaphrodite (ubhatobyañjanaka): the act is failed as to its object, an act not in accordance with the Dhamma. They give full ordination to a person less than twenty years of age: the act is failed as to its object, an act not in accordance with the Dhamma.
Thus do formal acts fail with respect to the object.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.