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PROCEDURE OF USING OR REJECTING UNACCEPTABLE SALT
73. A bhikshu or bhikshuni on entering the house of a layman in order to seek alms should find if the host is offering bid-lavan or udbhij-lavan (types of salt) after taking it out from a pot placed inside the house, breaking it, picking a portion and bringing it out. If it is so, he should refuse to take any such salt while it is still in the pot or hand of the host, considering it to be faulty and unacceptable.
However, if he has accepted it inadvertently and the host is in proximity, he should carry it back to the host. Arriving there he should first show that salt and ask—“Long lived brother or sister ! Have you given me this salt knowingly or otherwise ?” Now if the host says, “I have not given it knowingly but inadvertently. But, long lived one, now I am giving it to you intentionally. Please use it or share it with others as you please.” After getting this permission from the donor the ascetic may return to his place of stay and consume it with due care.
If he himself is not able to consume it, he should give it to other sadharmik (co-religionist), sambhogik (affiliated), samanojna (conformist), apariharik (who has not renounced services by other ascetics) ascetics living nearby. If there are no ascetics around he should discard it at some desolate place following the prescribed procedure.
This (prudence of procedure of exploration) is the totality (of conduct including that related to knowledge) for that bhikshu or bhikshuni.
विवेचन-इस सूत्र का अभिप्राय स्पष्ट करते हुए वृत्तिकार लिखते हैं-भिक्षु अपने रोगी साधु के लिए गृहस्थ से जाकर खांड या बूरे की याचना करता है, परन्तु वह गृहस्थ सफेद रंग देखकर भूल से खांड या बूरे के बदले नमक देने लगता है, उस समय अगर साधु को यह मालूम हो जाए कि यह नमक है तो न ले, कदाचित् भूल से वह नमक ले लिया गया है और बाद में पता लगता है कि यह तो खांड नहीं, नमक है, तो वह पुनः दाता के पास जाकर यह निर्णय करे कि आपने यह वस्तु जानकर दी है या अनजाने? आगे की विधि मूल सूत्र में स्पष्ट कर दी गई है। TERIT (HTTP)
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