an.5.251 Aṅguttara Nikāya (Numbered Discourses)

Who Should Give Ordination

“Mendicants, ordination should be given by a mendicant with five qualities.
What five?
It’s a mendicant who has the entire spectrum of an adept’s ethics,
immersion,
wisdom,
freedom,
and the knowledge and vision of freedom.
Ordination should be given by a mendicant with these five qualities.”