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DASAVEĀLIYA SUTTA
[Ch. V-1
(35). He should accept food if it is offered with hand or spoon or pot spoiled ( with the very article that is offered ) if it be otherwise proper for acceptance. (36). When out of two persons dining together, one invites the monk for alms, the monk should not desire to accept it but he should find out the inclination of the other.(37). When out of two persons dining together, both invite, he should accept the offer provided the food is fit for acceptance. (38). If a pregnant woman has prepared various kinds of eatable and drinkable articles, the monk should avoid the food if it is offered before it is eaten ( by people for whom it is prepared ); he should, however, accept the remnant when their dinner is over. (39).
If perchance, a pregnant woman who has far advanced in pregnancy stands up at the monk's sight to offer him alms or sits down to do so, the eatables and drinkables become unfit for the self-restrained monk ; he should repudiate her saying that the food is not fit for him to accept. (40-41). If a woman with a sucking child, leaves aside, the child, male or female, keeping it crying and brings the eatables and drinkables for the monk, those eatable and drinkable articles become unfit for...... to accept. (43). Whenever the eatable and drinkable articles create a doubt regarding their acceptance or otherwise, he should repudiate her......to accept. (44). If the food is covered by a pitcher or by a crushing stone, or by a grinding stone or by an iron lid or ( if it is in & pot closed ) by plaster or by lac or by any other soldering substance, and if the woman uncovers the thing for the monk and offers it or asks others to offer it, the monk should repudiate her......to accept (45-46). If the monk comes to know or hear of any article eatable or drinkable, chewable or tastable, that it is prepared with a view to be given away, such an article becomes unfit for self-restrain
