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[Nishipa Sutra]
If a monk does not accept food even after the donor is accused in this way, he does not incur the atonement mentioned in the sutra. If he accepts food with washed hands, etc., he incurs the Laghu-Chaumasik atonement.
In the Bhadrabahu-krit Niyukti Gatha 4066, it is said that if another man gives another food or the same food, it can be accepted. But according to the commentary in Gatha 4072, it is not permissible to accept food from a person whose hands have been involved in previous karma, even after his hands have dried.
The Bhikṣācārī-Aticāra-Pratikramāṇa text in Āva. A. 4 also mentions the fault of previous karma.
**Atonement for accepting food from a water vessel**
15. If a monk accepts food, drink, edibles, or delicacies from a householder or another non-Jain, with wet hands, a clay pot, a ladle, or a metal vessel, or approves of someone who does so, (he incurs the Laghu-Chaumasik atonement).
**Discussion:**
The previous sutra states that if a donor washes his hands, vessels, etc., before giving alms, then accepting food from him does not incur atonement. This sutra states that if a householder is performing any action with conscious water, which makes his hands wet with conscious water, or if a vessel is being used to fill or carry conscious water, then accepting alms from such hands or vessels constitutes a violation of the living beings in the water. Furthermore, if that hand or vessel is then placed in other conscious water, it also violates the Apkāyik beings.
Thus, this sutra states the atonement for the violation of the water remaining in the hands, etc., and the subsequent violation that occurs later.
The commentary explains that when accepting alms from a vessel used to carry or drink water, a portion of the food remains in the vessel, which, when placed in water, violates the Apkāyik beings. Therefore, one should not accept food from vessels that have been used for conscious water.
If one accepts un-conscious hot or cold water from such hands, vessels, etc., it violates the water present in the hands, vessels, etc., and the remaining un-conscious water in the vessels violates other conscious water.
The fourth Uddesaka states the Laghu-Māsik atonement for accepting food from wet or oily hands, vessels, etc., with conscious water. Here, the Laghu-Chaumasik atonement is stated in relation to the fault of subsequent karma.