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5. The Begging-Tour
Part 2 1. The monk should wipe [his] alms-bowl in order to remove [any] substances clinging to it and then should eat all [that is filled into it], be its smell good or bad; nothing is to be thrown away. 2. If, in his quarters, during study, or on the begging-tour, he does, on account of exertion, not manage to subsist on that which he has eaten, 3. then, because there is sufficient reason for it, he should [once more] go out for food and drink, in accordance with the rule given above and the one given here. 3. He should go out and return during the time [allowed for the tour] and avoiding its transgression keep within the time-limit. 5. [For people would say:] “You walk round at a time not permitted, o monk, you do not care about the prescribed time. You are injuring your own reputation and you injure the reputation of our village". 6. The monk should go round at the (prescribed] time and should act with energy: he should not be sorry when he receives nothing and endure the pangs of hunger, considering it as a fast. 7. Secondly: [if], in order to partake of the meal, big and small animals have come, he should not go straight through them, but proceed carefully. 8. If he wishes to do his best on the begging-tour, the monk should not sit down anywhere and, while standing, should not indulge in gossiping. 9. (Under the same supposition,) he should not stand leaning against a [big] bolt, a cross-beam, a door, or its leaf. 10. If a wandering monk of another sect, a poor man, or a professional] beggar has come [to a house] for food [and] drink, 11.a[Jain] monk should not enter [the house) by going in before the others nor stare at those people, but he should retire and stand there alone. 13. If he is not welcome to (such] a beggar or to the almsgiver or to both, or if his request has no weight, he should come for food and drink only when that [beggar) has retired after an alms has been refused or given to him.
14. If [the woman) gives him lotuses of various kind, mrgadantika or another living flower, having plucked it here and there [or] 16. having torn it, 15. 17. such an alms would not be allowed... (etc. as 5, 1, 41).... 18. [The monk] should avoid bulbous roots, growing in water or on dry ground, lotus-stalks of various kinds [and] pieces of sugar-cane, (all
