A man tells a monk, “Sir, find out about such-and-such a woman.” If he accepts the mission, but gets a pupil to find out the response, and the pupil then reports back on his own initiative, they both commit a serious offense.

Permutations part 3 If he fulfills the agreement when he goes, but not when he returns, he commits a serious offense. If he does not fulfill the agreement when he goes, but he does when he returns, he commits a serious offense. If he fulfills the agreement both when he goes and when he returns, he commits an offense entailing suspension. If he neither fulfills the agreement when he goes nor when he returns, there is no offense.

Non-offenses There is no offense: if he goes because of business for the Sangha, for a shrine, or for one who is sick; if he is insane; if he is the first offender. Summary verses of case studies “Asleep, and dead, gone out, Not a woman, a woman who lacks sexual organs; He reconciled them after quarreling, And he was a matchmaker for <i lang='pi' translate='no'>paṇḍakas</i>.”

Case studies At one time a man told a monk, “Sir, please find out about such-and-such a woman.” When the monk got there, he asked some people, “Where’s so-and-so?” “She’s asleep, venerable.” He became anxious, thinking, “The Buddha has laid down a training rule. Could it be that I’ve committed an offense entailing suspension?” He told the Buddha, who said, “There’s no offense entailing suspension, but there’s an offense of wrong conduct.”