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5. The Begging-Tour
69. the wise ones, knowing such-like great faults, do not accept an alms that is taken from a loft. 70. The monk] should avoid a bulb, a root, [or] a [palm-] fruit, when cut off unripe, or salad, a gourd, ginger, when in their natural state, 71. 72. ground corn [or) pepper, spiced curd, dumplings, pastry or other similar (food), which was sold in a shop and,
having lain open, is covered by dust; he should refuse it... .. (etc. as 41).... 73. Meat or fish with many bones, asthika- and
tenduka-fruits, bilva, sugar-cane and eriodendron, 74. would be an alms small in quantity, but a great prostitution of the Dharma; the monk should refuse it... (etc. as 41).... 75. Likewise he should avoid [intoxicating) drink of good and inferior quality, or a drink wherein fruits have been washed, or a drink into which cold water was poured, [or] rice-water, if the rice has been freshly washed. 76. [But] if, from his own judgment or observation or from an answer to his question he knows the rice to have been washed a long time ago, and it [therefore] is beyond reproof, 77. [and] he knows it to be lifeless and changed by human treatment, the monk may accept it. If it is dubious, he should taste and decide. 78. [He should say]: "Give me a little upon my hand in order that I may taste it, you must not give me sour [and] mouldy (rice], it is not fit to quench the thirst." 79. If (this is the case), - he should refuse it... (etc. as 41).... 80. If he should have accepted (such a drink], not because he had a liking for it, but, inadvertedly, he should not drink it himself nor cause it to be given to another [monk.]. 81. [but] he should go to a lonely spot, examine it with regard to its freedom from living beings, carefully pour it away and then come back. 82. If he [will] do his very best on the begging-tour, he should, when he wants to have his meal, inspect a corner or the foot of a wall, whether it is unobjectionable, and, 83. having obtained the permission of his master and having thoroughly wiped his hand, eat there, provided that the place is covered in. 84.When he is eating, it might happen that he meets with a bone, a thorn, a bit of grass, a little piece of wood, a little stone, or some similar thing [in his food]; 85. having taken it out, he should not throw it away nor eject it from his mouth, [but] he should take it in his hand, go to a lonely spot 86. (and do as told in 81).
