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there for festivities. Also, if the occasion is of offerings to the : deceased ancestors, festival in honour of Indra or Skanda or Rudra or Mukunda or demons or yakshas or snakes or a stupa or a shrine or a tree or a hill or a cave or a well or a tank or a pond or a river or a lake or the sea or a mine or other such festive': occasions.
(On such occasion) if that food is being served from one, two, three or four pots to many Shramans, Brahmins, destitute and beggars; and if milk, curd, butter, jaggery etc. are being served; then if the food offered is apurushantarakrit (has been prepared by the donor himself), it should be rejected considering it to be contaminated and unacceptable.
If it is found that food has been donated to those for whom it was meant, and now the family members are eating, he or she may go there to seek food. When he/she finds that the wife, sister, son, daughter, daughter-in-law, governess, slaves and servants are eating, he/she should ask, “Long lived sister ! Would you kindly give me a little food from this ?” On this request the person may bring food and give it to the bhikshu or bhikshuni. Considering such food to be uncontaminated and acceptable he/she should take the food whether it has been sought by the bhikshu or bhikshuni or has been offered by the layman on his own. ___ विवेचन-सूत्र १0 में पर्व विशेष के निमित्त निष्पन्न आहार ग्रहण का निषेध है और इस सूत्र में नामकरण (जन्म) मृत्यु-भोज तथा इन्द्र-रुद्र आदि देवों के उत्सवों के निमित्त निर्मित भोज में से आहार ग्रहण करने का प्रसंग है। इस प्रकार का आहार जब श्रमण-ब्राह्मण आदि को दिया जा चुका हो, पुरुषान्तरकृत हो गया हो तो दाता के देने पर भिक्षु उसमें से ले सकता है।
Elaboration—In aphorism 10 there is censure of accepting food specifically prepared on festivals and here the matter of accepting food prepared for feasts on various celebrations like birthday or in honour of some god like Indra, is discussed. An ascetic can accept such food if
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