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ed monks; he should repudiate her......to accept. (47-48). If the monk comes to know...... with a view to secure merit, such an article......to accept. (49-50). If the monk comes to know...... with a view to be given to beggars, such an article......to accept. (51-52). If the monk comes to know...... with a view to be given to monks, such an article......to accept. (53-54).
TRANSLATION
The monk should avoid food meant for him, or purchased for him, or polluted by mixture of impure food or brought to him from a distance, or supplemented, or brought on credit, or mixed with unacceptable articles. (55). In such cases, he should inquire about the preparation-for whose sake or by whom the food was prepared; and on hearing that it is free from any suspicion and is quite pure, the self-restrained monk should accept it. (56). If the articleeatable or drinkable, chewable or tastable, be mixed with flowers or with green (i. e.) fresh seeds, it becomes unfit.........to accept. (57-58). If the article-eatable or drinkable, chewable or tastable-be placed in or above cold water, or on anthill etc., it becomes unfit.........to accept. (59-60). If the article...... be already placed on the hearth or fire, or be placed on the hearth at the sight of the monk and then offered, it becomes unfit.........to accept. (61-62). Similarly, if the food be offered after putting fuel in the hearth, or taking fuel out, or after kindling the fire, or making it ablaze, or after putting it out, or putting the ladle in the boiling food, or putting water in it, or putting aside the pot, or taking it down from the hearth, it becomes unfit......to accept. (63-64).
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If there is placed a plank or a slab, or a brick, for crossing over a muddy place, and if it be found shaking, the monk who is composed in his senses should not go by that way as there occurs the loss of self-restraint; so also, he should not step on a plank which is lying in the dark
