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among the four hands and feet. "Severed ear" means one whose one or two ears are severed at the base of the ear, or at the earlobe. But if someone's ear is severed at the ear-piercing, and it is possible to reattach it, he should be ordained after his ear is reattached. "Severed nose" means one whose nose is severed at the root of the nose, or at the tip, or at one nostril, or anywhere. If someone's The nose cannot be reattached, so, having made it suitable, he should be ordained. One whose ears and nose are cut is known in both ways. "One whose fingers are cut" means one whose one or many fingers are cut without showing any nail residue. But if even a thread-like amount of nail residue is visible, it is permissible to ordain him. "One whose thumbs are cut" means one whose one or many thumbs among the four thumbs are cut in the manner described for fingers. "One whose tendons are cut" means one whose large tendons called "kaṇḍarā" are cut in front or behind; due to even one of them being cut, he walks on the tips of his feet, or walks on the heels, or cannot steady his foot. "One with webbed hands" means one whose fingers are joined like a bat's wings; one desiring to ordain him should split the spaces between the fingers, remove all the inner skin, make it suitable, and then ordain him. If someone has six fingers, one desiring to ordain him should cut off the extra finger, make it suitable, and then ordain him. "Hunchback" means one whose body is hunched due to the chest, or back, or side protruding. But if some limb or minor limb is slightly bent, it is permissible to ordain him. Indeed, only the Great Man has a perfectly straight body like Brahmā; there is no other being who is not somewhat hunched. "Dwarf" means one who is short in the legs, or short in the waist, or short in both. For one short in the legs, the lower part of the body from the waist downwards is short, the upper part of the body is complete. For one short in the waist, the upper part of the body from the waist upwards is short, the lower part of the body is complete. For one short in both, both parts of the body are short, due to whose shortness the body is like a large pot-bellied jar, round like a goblin; it is not permissible to ordain any of these three types. "Goitered" means one who has a goiter on his neck like a pumpkin. This is merely an example; if there is a goiter in any place whatsoever, he should not be ordained. The decision on this is: "Monks, not with five diseases..." It should be understood in the way stated here: "He should be ordained if he is afflicted." What should be said about those with marks, those struck by a curse, and those with written marks, that has already been stated in phrases like "Monks, not one struck by marks." "Elephant-foot" is called a heavy foot. One whose foot is swollen, with boils arisen, rough, he should not be ordained. But if it has not yet become rough, and it is possible to bind it with a poultice, to put it into a water-pit, to fill it with water and sand, so that the veins become visible, and the calf becomes like an oil-tube, if it is possible to make it shrivel like this, it is permissible to make his foot like this and ordain him. If it swells again, the one who ordains him must also do so after making it like that. "One with a bad disease" means one who is constantly sick with any disease among boils, fistulas, bilious, phlegmatic, cough, consumption, etc., an incurable disease, disgusting, unpleasant; this one should not be ordained. "One who defiles the assembly" is one who defiles the assembly by his deformity; either he is too tall, his head and navel region being the size of others', or he is too short, like a dwarfish figure on both sides, or he is too dark, like a stump in a burnt field, or he is too fair, the color of polished copper, smeared with curds and buttermilk, or he is too thin, with little flesh and blood, like a body of bones, veins, and skin, or he is too fat, with heavy flesh, or he has a huge belly, like a great demon, or he has an excessively large head, as if standing with a basket on his head, or he has an excessively small head, endowed with a head too small, unsuited to his body, or he has a pointed, conical head, endowed with a head like a palm fruit cluster, or he has a peak-like head, endowed with a head gradually tapering upwards, or he has a tube-like head, endowed with a head like a large bamboo joint, or he has a pot-like head, or a sloping head, endowed with a head slanting on any of its four sides, or he has a sore head, or a putrid head, or he has tufted hair, endowed with hair like crops in a field eaten by insects, growing here and there, or he has a hairless head, or he has thick, stiff hair, like palm fiber. With hair, or with naturally grey hair, a white head, or with naturally copper-colored hair, or with hair like it's on fire, or with a swirling head, or with hair swirls standing up, like the swirls on a cow's body, or with eyebrows joined with the head hair, or with a forehead as if bound by a net. Or with joined eyebrows, or with hairless eyebrows, or with monkey-like eyebrows, or with very large eyes, or with very small eyes, or with eyes like holes made by striking a buffalo hide with an awl, or with uneven eyes, with one large and one small eye, or with uneven eye-whites, with one up and one down, thus with uneven eye-whites, or with squinting eyes, or with deep-set eyes, whose pupils appear like water-stars in a deep well; or with protruding eyes, whose pupils protrude like a crab's; or with elephant ears, with large earlobes, or with mouse ears, or with bat ears, with small earlobes, or with only ear holes, who has only ear holes without earlobes; or with unpierced ears (but a Greek-born person is not a defiler of the assembly, for that is his natural state); or with an ear fistula, with a constantly festering ear, or with a swollen ear, with an ear always discharging pus, or with pointed ears, with ears like the tip of a cow's feeding trough; or with very tawny eyes (but honey-tawny eyes are suitable for ordination). Or with no eyelashes, or with tear-flowing eyes, or with eyes like flowers, or with eyes afflicted by eye disease. Or with a very large nose, or with a very small nose, or with a flat nose, or with a crooked nose, standing to one side, not centered, or with a long nose, with a nose like a parrot's beak, able to lick with its tongue, or with a nose constantly dripping snot. Or with a large mouth, whose... He, like a frog-hopper, has a very large mouth-mark, but his mouth is very small, like a gourd, or has a broken mouth, or a crooked mouth, or large lips, endowed with lips like the rim of a pot, or thin lips, endowed with lips unable to cover teeth like a drum skin, or a large lower lip, or a thin upper lip, or a thin lower lip, or a large upper lip, or cut lips, or a ram's mouth, or a swollen mouth, or a conch-beak mouth, or endowed with lips white outside and very red inside, or a foul-smelling, corpse-like mouth. Or one with large teeth, endowed with teeth like bone fragments, or demon-like teeth, with teeth protruding below or above, but if he can cover them with his lips, it is only noticeable when he speaks, not when he is silent, him it is permissible to ordain. Or one with rotten teeth, or no teeth, but if he has fine teeth like a squirrel's teeth between his teeth, him it is permissible to ordain. Or one with a large jaw, endowed with a jaw like a cow's jaw, or a long jaw, or a flat jaw, endowed with a very short jaw, as if sunken inwards, or a broken jaw, or a crooked jaw, or one with no canine teeth, or a face like a bhikkhuni, or a long neck, endowed with a neck like a crane's neck, or a short neck, endowed with a neck as if sunken inwards, or a broken neck, or a collapsed shoulder-blade, or no hands, or one hand, or very short hands, or very long hands, or a broken chest, or a broken back, or a body with scabies, or a body with itching, or a body with ringworm, or a body like an iguana, from whose body powder falls like from an iguana, All this is said in an elaborate way, referring to disfigurement. The decision here should be understood in the way stated in "Monks, not with five diseases." Or one with a collapsed hip, or large buttocks, endowed with buttocks-flesh excessively raised like a furnace-mound, or large thighs, or one with elephantiasis, or large Knock-kneed, or rubbing-kneed, or long-legged, or stick-like-legged, or deformed, or with a large heel, or with swollen calves, he is of two kinds: endowed with large calves hanging low or raised high. Or large-legged, or with thick calves, or large-footed, or with a large heel, or with a high instep, or with shins rising from the middle of the foot, or with a crooked foot, he is of two kinds: a foot turned inward or outward. Or with knotty toes, or with toes like ginger roots, or with blind nails, or with black, putrid nails. All of these are defilers of the assembly. Such a defiler of the assembly should not be ordained. "Blind" means one whose vision is naturally impaired, or whose sight is damaged by cataracts and so forth. One who cannot see with two eyes or with one eye should not be ordained. In the Mahāpaccariya, however, a one-eyed person is called "blind" (kāṇa), a two-eyed blind person is included under "blind" (andha). In the Mahāaṭṭhakathā, one born blind is called "blind" (andha). Therefore, both are applicable by implication. "Crippled" means crippled in hand, or crippled in foot, or crippled in finger; whoever has any crookedness in these hands or feet, etc., is called crippled. "Lame" means one with bent knees, or with broken shins, or with a clubfoot due to the foot being contracted in the middle, or with a clubfoot due to walking on the middle of the instep and the foot being contracted at the front, or walking on the front of the instep, or lame from walking only on the forefoot,