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3. A monk who has his penes rubbed by a woman who is like his mother and approves of others doing the same has to undergo severe atonement for four months. (6.4).
4. A monk who scribes a scroll conveying his love to a woman who is like his mother and approves of others doing the same has to undergo severe atonement for four months. (6.13).
5. A monk who offers an eighteen-stringed necklace, a nine-stringed necklace, a pearl necklace, a golden necklace, or any other, and ear-rings, etc., and approves of others doing the same has to undergo severe atonement for four months, (7.8 & 9).
6. A monk who gives instruction to a woman in sacred texts with a motive to have her and approves of others doing the same has to undergo severe atonement for four months. (7.88).
7. If a monk is wandering with a nun belonging to his own order or to another order, and if they are by chance separated so that the monk feels a pang and desires to meet her again, and if he approves of such behaviour in another monk, he has to undergo severe atonement for four months. (8.11).
In this manner, Chapters six, seven and eight of the Nisiha contain prescription of atonement for diverse sex lapses.
Vinaya Pitaka on Lapses from Brahmacarya, etc.,
The frank discussion of Vinaya Pitaka which follows bears a close resemblance with the same in the Nisiha as given above.
1. While being tied to the monastic code of conduct, a monk who enjoys sex pleasures even with animals becomes a parājikā, and makes himself unworthy of living with other monks (26).
