Soon afterwards the monks were resolving a legal issue for the nuns. While they were discussing that legal issue, there were nuns who deserved to have a legal procedure done against them and who had committed an offense. “Venerables, please do the procedure against those nuns and receive their confession of offenses, for the Buddha has laid down that the nuns’ legal issues should be resolved by the monks.” They told the Buddha. “Monks, I allow you to determine the nature of the nuns’ legal procedure, before handing it over to the nuns to do it. And I allow you to charge a nun with an offense, before handing it over to the nuns for them to receive the confession.” At that time a nun who was a pupil of the nun Uppalavaṇṇā had followed the Buddha around for seven years to learn the Monastic Law. But because of her absentmindedness, she repeatedly forgot what she had learned. that the Buddha wanted to go to Sāvatthī,