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or with a tubular head, endowed with a head like a large bamboo joint; or with a flat head, or a sloping head, endowed with a head sloped on any of its four sides; or with a diseased head, or a putrid head, or with patchy hair, endowed with hair growing here and there like crops in a field eaten by insects; or with a hairless head, or with thick, stiff hair, endowed with hair like palm fibers; or with naturally grey hair, or with naturally red hair, endowed with hair as if on fire; or with a whorled head, endowed with hair whorls standing upright like the whorls on the body of cattle; or with eyebrows joined together with the head-hair, as if bound by a net... Possessed of a disfigured face. Or with joined eyebrows, Or with hairless eyebrows, Or with monkey-like eyebrows, Or with excessively large eyes, Or with excessively small eyes, Or with eyes like holes made by striking a buffalo hide with an axe-edge, Or with uneven eyes, Endowed with one large eye and one small eye, Or with uneven pupils, Endowed with pupils of such an uneven kind, one looking up, one looking down, Or with squinting eyes, Or with deep-set eyes, Whose eye-pupils appear like water-stars in a deep well, Or with protruding eyes, Whose eye-pupils protrude like those of a crab, Or with elephant-ears, Endowed with large ear-flaps, Or with mouse-ears, Or with bat-ears, Endowed with small ear-flaps, Or with merely a hole for an ear, Who has only an ear-hole without ear-flaps, Or with unpierced ears. (But one of Greek origin is not a defiler of the assembly; that is his natural state.) Or with a fistula of the ear, Endowed with a constantly festering ear, Or with a diseased ear, Endowed with an ear constantly discharging pus, Or with chisel-like ears, Endowed with ears like the tip of a cow-feeding tube, Or with excessively reddish-brown eyes. (But one with honey-brown eyes is fit to be ordained.) Or with eyes without eyelashes, Or with tear-discharging eyes, Or with eyes like flowers (cataracts), Or with eyes afflicted by eye-disease. Or with an excessively large nose, Or with an excessively small nose, Or with a flat nose, Or with a crooked nose, standing to one side, not centered, Or with a long nose, Endowed with a nose like a parrot's beak, able to lick with the tongue, Or with a nose constantly discharging snot, Or with a large mouth, Whose mouth-opening is large like a frog's, But the mouth itself is excessively small like a gourd, Or with a split mouth, Or with a crooked mouth, Or with large lips, Endowed with lips like the rim of a mortar, Or with thin lips, With lips unable to cover the teeth, like drum-skin. Endowed with lips: Or having large lower lips, Or having thin upper lips, Or having thin lower lips, Or having large upper lips, Or having cut lips, Or having a goat's mouth, Or having a swollen mouth, Or having a conch-like mouth, Or having lips white outside and very red inside, Or having a mouth with a foul, corpse-like smell, Or having large teeth, Or having teeth like bone fragments, Or having demon-like teeth, Or having teeth protruding below or above, But if it is possible to cover them with the lips, It is only apparent when speaking, Not when not speaking, Him it is proper to ordain. Or having rotten teeth, Or having no teeth, Or having very small teeth, But if between the teeth there are fine teeth like kalandaka teeth, Him it is proper to ordain. Or having a large jaw, Or having a jaw like a cow's jaw, Or having a long jaw, Or having a flat jaw, Or having a very short jaw, as if sunken in, Or having a broken jaw, Or having a crooked jaw, Or having no canine teeth, Or having a face like a bhikkhuni's. Or having a long neck, Or having a neck like a heron's neck, Or having a short neck, Or having a neck as if sunken in, Or having a broken neck, Or having a broken shoulder-blade, Or having no hands, Or having one hand, Or having very short hands, Or having very long hands, Or having a broken chest, Or having a broken back, Or having a body with itch, Or having a body with scabies, Or having a body with ringworm, Or having a body like an iguana, From whose body powder falls like from an iguana. All this is said in an expanded way with reference to disfigurement, The decision here should be understood according to the method stated for the five diseases. Or having a broken hip, Or having large buttocks, Or having very prominent buttock-flesh like an oven-mound, Or having large thighs, Or having elephantiasis of the testicles, Or having large knees, Or having knocking knees, Or having long shins, Or having shins like a stick, Or having deformed shins, Or having close-set shins, Or having raised calves, That is of two kinds: Having large calves hanging down or raised up, Or having large shins, Or having thick calves, Or having large feet, Or having large heels. or with a bent back-foot, or with a foot bent in the middle, or with a crooked foot, which is of two kinds: a foot turned inward or outward, or with knotty toes, or with toes like ginger roots, or with putrid nails, or with black, putrid nails— all of these are defilers of the assembly. Such a defiler of the assembly should not be ordained. 134. "Blind" means one who is completely blind, or whose vision is impaired by cataracts, or who cannot see with one or both eyes; such a one should not be ordained. In the Mahāpaccariya, one blind in one eye is called "kāṇa" (one-eyed blind), one blind in both eyes is included under "andha" (blind). In the Mahāaṭṭhakathā, one born blind is called "andha" (blind). Therefore, both terms are applicable by extension. "Crippled" means one with a crippled hand, or a crippled foot, or crippled fingers, whose hands or feet or any part thereof is observed to be crooked. "Lame" means one with bent knees, or a broken shin, or a clubfoot due to a contracted mid-foot, walking on the middle of the back of the foot, or a clubfoot due to a contracted forefoot, walking on the front of the back of the foot, or a lame person walking only on the forefoot, or a lame person walking on the heel, or a lame person walking on the outer edge of the foot, or a lame person walking on the inner edge of the foot, or a lame person walking on the entire back of the foot due to a fracture above the ankles. All of these are lame, and should not be ordained. "Paralyzed" means one whose one hand, or one foot, or half of the body does not function properly. "Deprived of posture" means one who crawls on the buttocks. "Weak from old age" means one who is weak due to old age, unable to perform even tasks like dyeing his own robes. However, if an old person is strong and able to take care of himself, he should be ordained. "Blind" means one who is born blind. "Mute" means one whose speech is not clear, or even if it is, cannot recite the refuges completely. Such a stammerer should not be ordained. But one who can recite the refuges completely, that It is proper to ordain. A deaf person is one who hears nothing at all. But one who hears a loud sound, it is proper to ordain him. The blind, mute, and others are mentioned as having both defects. And for whom ordination is forbidden, for them higher ordination is also forbidden. But if the Saṅgha gives them higher ordination, all are well-ordained. Yet the Saṅgha that performs it, and the teachers and preceptors, are not freed from offense. 135. A paṇḍaka, one with both sexual organs, one who lives by theft, one who has gone over to another sect, one who has become an animal, a matricide, a parricide, a killer of an Arahant, one who has shed the Buddha's blood, a schismatic, and a defiler of a bhikkhunī – these eleven persons, from the saying beginning: "A paṇḍaka, monks, if not yet given higher ordination, should not be given higher ordination; if already given higher ordination, should be expelled" (Mahāva. 109), are incapable. Neither ordination nor higher ordination is suitable for them. Therefore they should not be ordained nor given higher ordination. And one who ordains or gives higher ordination knowing this incurs an offense of wrong-doing. Even if ordained or given higher ordination unknowingly, they should be expelled by disrobing upon discovery. Among these, a paṇḍaka means five kinds of paṇḍakas: an āsittapaṇḍaka, an usūyapaṇḍaka, an opakkamikapaṇḍaka, a pakkhapaṇḍaka, and a napuṃsakapaṇḍaka. Among these, one whose burning sensation subsides when he takes another's organ into his mouth and is sprinkled with impurity, this is an āsittapaṇḍaka. One whose burning sensation subsides when he sees others engaging in sexual misconduct and envy arises, this is an usūyapaṇḍaka. One whose testicles have been removed by an operation, this is an opakkamikapaṇḍaka. But some, by the power of unwholesome kamma-result, are paṇḍakas during the dark half of the month, but their burning sensation subsides during the bright half; this is a pakkhapaṇḍaka. But one who is born without sexual organs from conception itself, this is a napuṃsakapaṇḍaka. Among these, the ordination of an āsittapaṇḍaka and an usūyapaṇḍaka is not forbidden; for the other three, it is forbidden. "Among these, for the pakkhapaṇḍaka, ordination is forbidden only during the half-month when he is a paṇḍaka," says the Kurundī. ...it is said. 136. "Ubhatobyañjanako" (one with both characteristics) (Mahāva. Aṭṭha. 116) means one who has both characteristics, due to the act of producing female characteristics and the act of producing male characteristics. Such a person is called "ubhatobyañjanako." This is of two kinds: female ubhatobyañjanako and male ubhatobyañjanako. Among these, for the female ubhatobyañjanako, the female characteristic is manifest, and the male characteristic is hidden. For the male ubhatobyañjanako, the male characteristic is manifest, and the female characteristic is hidden. For the female ubhatobyañjanako, when acting as a male among females, the female characteristic is hidden, and the male characteristic is manifest.