ehiBikzukA
ehibhikṣukā , the act or formula of ordination as monk by pronouncing the words beginning ehi bhikṣu (bhikṣo; Pali ehi bhikkhu; or pl. bhikṣavo); one of the four forms of upasaṃpad(ā) , q.v. : ehibhikṣukāya ( inst. ) upasaṃpadā Mv i.2.15 ; often followed by the words of the formula, in Mv regularly ehibhikṣukāye (or °ya, inst. ) ābhāṣe (3 sg. aor ; rarely abhibhāṣe, iii.379.13 ), or ābhāṣṭo, °ṭā ( ppp. , subject the initiates): ehi bhikṣu (sometimes followed by the name, as Upāli iii.180.12 ; or pl. etha bhikṣavo) cara (caratha) tathāgate brahmacaryaṃ Mv ii.234.2 (read etha for Senart ʼs em. ehatha); iii.65.2 ; 92.7 ; 180.12 ; 181.3 ; 379.13 ; 413.10 ; in Divy 48.18 ; 281.22 ; 341.27 ; 558.18 ehibhikṣukayā ābhāṣitaḥ (or °tāḥ; 341.27 mss. ābhāṣya, ger. ) ehi bhikṣo cara (eta bhikṣavaś carata) brahmacaryaṃ (omitting tathāgate); also used without quotation of the formula, the instr. °kāye or °kāya (in Mv ; °kayā Divy and Av ) being followed by ppp. pravrājito (°taḥ, or °tā = °tāḥ; Mv adds upasaṃpādito or °tā = °tāḥ) Mv iii.376.14 ; 401.16 ; 430.14 ; Divy 463.25 ; Av ii.113.5 ; (ayaṃ ca me) caramo bhaviṣyati sākṣāc-chrāvakāṇām ehibhikṣukayā pravrajitānām (non- caus. ), … of disciples who have become monks through (my saying) the ehibhikṣukā formula , Av i.230.16 .