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## Ninth Uddeshak
**11.** A monk who partakes of food or approves of someone partaking of food in a house where a pure-lineage, crowned Kshatriya king is being served food, before the royal council rises, before they leave, and before everyone has left, incurs the Guru-Chaumasī Prāyaścitta.
**Explanation:** If a person has arranged a light meal or a full meal and has invited the king to it, then a monk should not go there to beg for food as long as the king and his companions are eating. It is not forbidden to partake of food after they have left. Partaking of food before that and going there is objectionable. Therefore, if it is seen or known that the king has been invited there, i.e., he is eating there, then going to that house or partaking of food there incurs the Guru-Chaumasī Prāyaścitta.
"Aṇṇataraghaṇena bhedadarśanaṁ, śarīraṁ upavrihayanīti upavrihaṇīyā" "Sā ya cauṇviha āsaṇādi." "Jementass raṇṇo uvavūhaṇīyā āṇiyā, 'piṭṭhao' tti vuttaṁ bhavati. Taṁ jo tāe parisāe aṇuṭṭhitāe gehati tass ṅkā (cauguru). Rāyapindo ceva so. Āsaṇāṇi mottu udghaṭṭiyāe accchanti, tato kei niggatā bhiṇṇā, aseśesu niggatēsu vocchiṇṇā, erise ṇ rāyapindo." - Chūṇi p. 459-60.
The meaning of this sūtra is that it is not proper for a monk to go to a house where the king is eating. According to this sūtra, there is no Prāyaścitta for going there after the king has eaten and left.
**12.** If it is known that the king is staying in this place, then a monk who stays in that house, in any part of that house, or in any place near that house, studies, performs Japa, partakes of food, drink, edibles, or delicacies, or excretes or approves of someone doing so, incurs the Guru-Chaumasī Prāyaścitta.
**Explanation:** The previous sūtra spoke of the Prāyaścitta for going to the house where the king had come to eat, and this sūtra speaks of the Prāyaścitta for staying in the house where the king has stayed for a day or two.
The meaning of these sūtras is that a monk should stay away from the places where the king eats, stays, or makes a short stay. It is not objectionable for the king to come to the monk's place, but the monk should not go to any place where the king is staying or even near it.
Sūtrakṛtāṅgasūtra A. 2, U. 2, Gā. 18 also says that...