On one occasion the monks gave the going forth to someone without a hand … to someone without a foot … to someone without a hand and foot … to someone without an ear … to someone without a nose … to someone without an ear and nose … to someone without a finger or toe … to someone with a cut tendon … to someone with joined fingers … to a hunchback … to a dwarf … to someone with goiter … to someone who had been branded … to someone who had been whipped … to a wanted criminal … to someone with elephantiasis … to someone with a serious sickness … to someone with abnormal appearance … to someone blind in one eye … to someone with a crooked limb … to someone lame … to someone paralyzed on one side … to someone crippled … to someone weak from old age … to someone blind … to a mute … to someone deaf … to someone blind and mute … to someone blind and deaf … to someone mute and deaf … to someone blind, mute, and deaf. They told the Buddha. …

“You shouldn’t give the going forth to someone without a hand, to someone without a foot, to someone without a hand and foot, to someone without an ear, to someone without a nose, to someone without an ear and nose, to someone without a finger or toe, to someone with a cut tendon, to someone with joined fingers, to a hunchback, to a dwarf, to someone with goiter, to someone who has been branded, to someone who has been whipped, to a wanted criminal, to someone with elephantiasis, to someone with a serious sickness, to someone with abnormal appearance, to someone blind in one eye, to someone with a crooked limb, to someone lame, to someone paralyzed on one side, to someone crippled, to someone weak from old age, to someone blind, to a mute, to someone deaf, to someone blind and mute, to someone blind and deaf, to someone mute and deaf, or to someone blind, mute, and deaf. If you do, you commit an offense of wrong conduct.” The section consisting of thirty-two cases when the going forth is not to be given is finished. The ninth section for recitation on inheritance is finished.

58. Formal support for shameless monks