It then became necessary for the national authority to implement limitation and regulation by measures including quotas on people who were to become priests or to enter the priesthood (nenbundo-sha [approved people who enter the Buddhist priesthood]).
それで、国家権力として、出家や得度に定数を決定するなどの施策によって、その制限・規制を行なう必要が出てきた（年分度者）。