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Śrāvakbhūmi
expands and elucidates the various component parts of this description.1
Threefold defects in food:
The following points have been discussed under this
head:
(a) pratisamkhyāya āhārām āharati: the renounced pudgala takes his meal with an insight, after considering the various defects (adīnavas) in the gross food (kabuḍankāra āhāra). These adinavas are categorised as under:
(i) paribhoganvayaḥ or relating to enjoyment: the insight into the impurity (aśucita) of the food at the time of and after taking it.
(ii) vipariņāmānvayaḥ or relating to transforination
(i) the meal taken before is digested in the night in the form of various impure (aśuci) things, such as blood, flesh and the like, (ii) it also leads at some times, due to indigestion, to several diseases in the body.
(iii) parye ṣaṇāvayḥ (sixfold): Relating to proper investigation by reasoning (paryeṣaṇānvayaḥ). This is sixfold:
(a) caused by pronouncement (samudānanākṛtaḥ): one to take too much trouble for the sake of food;
1. Yatha kaścit pratisaṁkhyāyāhāramāharati. Na darpārtham (dravārtham), na madarthaṁ, na maṇḍanārtham yāvadevāsya kayasya sthitaye, yāpanāyai, brahmacaryanugrhāya iti. Paurānām vedanām prahāsyāmi navāñca notpādayisyāmi, yātrā ca me bhavisyati. balam ca sukham canavadyată ca, sparśavihārată cetyucyate bhojane mätrajñata., SBh., pp. 10, 73 sq.; Vide also, Dh. S., pp. 290-91; S. N., III. 36; M. N., I. 335, II. 22 etc.; Vbh., p. 299; A. N., I. 104-5.
