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CENSURE OF MALAPAHRIT FOOD
37. A bhikshu or bhikshuni while entering the house of a layman in order to seek alms should find if the food is placed on a wall, a pillar, a platform, other higher parts of the house (lofts etc.), palace or mansion or on the roof top or other such higher or remote places. In such case the ascetic should refrain from taking any food brought down from higher places, if offered, considering it to be faulty and unacceptable. The omniscient has said that to be a cause of bondage of karmas.
In order to offer food (getting down food from higher places) to the ascetic the layman will step up on a stool, table, ladder or an upturned pot. While stepping up the layman may slip or fall. On slipping or falling he may damage his hand, leg, arm, chest, belly, head or any other part of his body. Also, his fall may cause harm to prani (beings), bhoot (organisms), jiva (souls) and sattva (entities); these beings may get buried in the sand, crushed together or collide together; they may be touched by pain, torment or irritation; they may be shifted from one place to another; or even lose their life. Therefore, the ascetic should refrain from taking any food brought down from higher places (Malapahrit), if offered, considering it to be faulty and unacceptable.
३८. से भिक्खू वा २ जाव समाणे से जं पुण जाणेज्जा - असणं वा ४ कोट्ठियाओ वा कोलेज्जाओ वा अस्संजए भिक्खुपडियाए उक्कुज्जिय अवउज्जिय ओहरिय आहट्टु दलज्जा । तहप्पगारं असणं वा ४ मालोहडं ति णच्चा लाभे संते णो पडिगाहेज्जा ।
३८. साधु या साध्वी आहार के लिए, गृहस्थ के घर में प्रवेश करते हुए यह जान ले कि असंयत गृहस्थ साधु के लिए अशनादि चतुर्विध आहार मिट्टी आदि की बड़ी कोठी में से या ऊपर से सँकड़े और नीचे से चौड़े भूमिगृह में से नीचा होकर, कुबड़ा होकर या टेढ़ा होकर निकालकर देना चाहता है, तो ऐसे अशनादि चतुर्विध आहार को मालापहृत दोष से युक्त जानकर प्राप्त होने पर भी ग्रहण न करे।
38. A bhikshu or bhikshuni while entering the house of a layman in order to seek alms should find if the indisciplined
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