{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe20/sbe20094.htm","path":"bud/sbe20/sbe20094.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe20/sbe20094.htm","text":"1. Now Mah\u00e2-pag\u00e2pat\u00ee the Gotam\u00ee went up to the place where the venerable \u00c2nanda was, and bowed down before him, and stood respectfully on one side.\n[paragraph continues] And, so standing, Mah\u00e2-pag\u00e2pat\u00ee the Gotam\u00ee said to the venerable \u00c2nanda: 'One thing, \u00c2nanda, would I ask of the Blessed One. It were well, Sir, if the Blessed One would allow the making of salutations, the rising up in presence of another, the paying of reverence, and the performance of proper duties one towards another, to take place as between both Bhikkhus and Bhikkhun\u00ees (equally) according to seniority.'\nAnd the venerable \u00c2nanda went to the Blessed One [and repeated her words to him].\n'This is impossible, \u00c2nanda, and unallowable, that I should so order. Even those others, \u00c2nanda, teachers of ill doctrine, allow not such conduct towards women; how much less, then, can the Tath\u00e2gata allow it?'\nAnd the Blessed One, on that occasion, having delivered a religious discourse, addressed the Bhikkhus, and said: 'You are not, O Bhikkhus, to bow down before women, to rise up in their presence, to stretch out your joined hands towards them, nor to perform towards them those duties that are proper (from an inferior to a superior). Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata.'","title":"SBE 20: Tenth Khandhaka: Chapter 3","type":"page"}