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use of the word padiläbhemänassa. Any offer to an ordinary beggar has a different word which is dalayayt or dalejja.
Notes
Q. 209. The words afäsuyena and anesanijjen are worthy of note. Ordinarily they may mean 'with the association of living things' and 'with fault'. But such meaning becomes irrelevant here in the context of 'much exhaustion of karma and little. sin' following an offer. Besides, such food is unacceptable to a monk. Hence the commentators interpret the two words with reference to what is contained in the Acārānga Sütra. According to this source, food becomes anesaniya when the food collected by a monk is excessive or has little edible portion or it has been received without the knowledge and permission of the owner or where the thing does not remain wholesome till use. A food may be afäsuya when the vessel containing it touches some prohibited thing. But the exception is food which though impure is given under exceptional circumstances to save the life of a monk, which earns merit.
Q.210. The word thandilla refers to the type of land on which the unused portion of the food or food not meant for the receiving monk is to be deposited. This act needs exceptional care. Ten adjectives of the type of land referred to by the word are :
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अणावtयमसंलोए अणावाए चेव होइ संलोए । आवायमसंलोए आवाए चेव होइ संलोए ॥ १ ॥ अणावायमसंलोए परस्स अणुवघाइए । að afat uıfa afazaıøgufta a ||||| fafeqvod grains uiam famafong! तपाणबीय रहिए उच्चाराईणि वोसिरे ॥ ३ ॥
They are: a piece of land where no one comes nor observes, where not a single life is killed, which is flat, which is not covered with grass, leaves or hay, which has just been ma de free from life by the burning of fire, whose dimension is one cubit by one cubit, where the soil underneath upto two inches is free from life, which is not near a village
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