an.5.252 Aṅguttara Nikāya (Numbered Discourses)

Who Should Give Dependence

“Mendicants, dependence 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.
Dependence should be given by a mendicant with these five qualities.”