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- Dasha Shruta Skandha Sutra
Seventh Dasha
A monk should not accept food from a pregnant woman, nor from a woman with a young child, nor from a woman who is giving milk to her child. He should not accept food from a woman who is giving food with both her feet inside the doorway, nor from a woman who is giving food with both her feet outside the doorway. He should accept food from a woman who is giving food with one foot inside the doorway and one foot outside the doorway. This is how a monk should accept food. If a woman does not give food in this way, then a monk should not accept food from her.
Word Meaning- A monk should accept one food and one water from a monthly-period-observing, image-bearing, renounced householder. It is appropriate to accept from an unknown family, pure