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## Chapter 192: The Prohibition of Accepting Alms from Certain Donors
**Regarding the Prohibition of Accepting Alms from Certain Donors:**
**192.** It is considered inappropriate to accept alms from a person with a severed hand, as it can cause disgust among people due to the impurity and the possibility of the offered item falling to the ground. Similarly, accepting alms from a person with a severed foot carries the same risks. Furthermore, a person with a severed foot may fall while walking to offer alms, causing harm to the soul.
**278.** Accepting alms from a eunuch can lead to self-inflicted harm, harm to others, or both. Repeatedly accepting alms from them can lead to excessive familiarity, which may cause distress or anger in the eunuch or the monk. People may also develop a sense of disgust, believing that the monk is also a eunuch.
**279.** A pregnant woman's movements while offering alms can disturb the fetus. If a woman with a child offers alms while carrying the child, the child may be mistaken for a piece of meat by a cat or other animal, leading to its destruction.
**280.** A woman washing her hands before offering alms while eating can lead to the violation of water. If she offers alms with unclean hands without rinsing them, it can cause disgust among people. Similarly, accepting alms from a woman churning yogurt with yogurt-stained hands can lead to the destruction of the life forms present in the yogurt.
**281.** Accepting alms from a woman grinding, pounding, or crushing can lead to the destruction of water, seeds, and other life forms. If a woman is shelling chickpeas or other grains, accepting alms from her can lead to the burning of the chickpeas if the alms-giving process takes too long. If a woman is spinning cotton, weaving, or processing it, she may wash her hands after offering alms, which can lead to the destruction of water-dwelling life forms.
**282.** A woman with a living being in her hand, such as salt, water, fire, air, a vessel filled with air, fruit, fish, etc., is called a "Shatkayavyagrahasta" (one with six types of life forms in her hand). It is forbidden to accept alms from her because she may place these items on the ground, step on them, or crush them with her body parts, including her hands.
**283.** Women who engage in activities such as digging the earth, bathing with conscious water, washing clothes with conscious water, watering trees, (lighting a fire or throwing a vessel filled with conscious air), cutting vegetables, drying vegetables in the sun, cleaning rice, and killing fish in the sixth life form (Triskaaya) are all involved in violence against living beings. Therefore, it is not appropriate to accept alms from their hands.
**Notes:**
1. The commentator Malayagiri mentions another reason for avoiding accepting alms from a woman with a child: the monk's hands become soiled from food, and the dry, food-stained hands become rough, which can cause pain to the child when picked up.
2. The original text does not mention the harm caused by women who engage in activities related to the life forms of fire and air. This information is based on the commentary and is therefore enclosed in parentheses.