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say, after consideration : 'O long-lived one! (or, O sister !) it is not meet for me to accept meat with many bones; if you want to give me a portion of whatever size, give it me; but not the bones!' If after these words the other (i.e. the householder) should fetch meat containing many bones, put it in a bowl and return with it, (the mendicant) should not accept such a bowl, whether out of the other's hand or a vessel 1; for it is impure and unacceptable. But if he has inadvertently accepted it, he should not say: 'No, away, take it!' Knowing this, he should go apart, and in a garden or an upâsraya, where there are few eggs, &c., (all down to) cobwebs, eat the meat or fish, and taking the bones, he should resort to a secluded spot and leave them on a heap of ashes, &c. (see II, 1, 1, § 2). (6)
If a householder should fetch fossil salt or sea salt, put it in a bowl and return with it, a monk or a nun on a begging-tour should not accept it out of the other's hand or vessel ; for, &c.
But if he has inadvertently accepted it, he should return with it to the householder, if he is not yet too far away, and say, after consideration 2 : 'Did you give me this with your full knowledge or without it?' He might answer: 'I did give it without my full knowledge ; but indeed, O long-lived one! I now give it you; consume it or divide it (with others)!
Then being permitted by, and having received it from, the householder, he should circumspectly eat it or drink it, and what he cannot eat or drink he
1 Parahatthamsi vâ parapâyamsi vå. This is a typical phrase, and seems rather out of place here. : Âloegga, he should show, would perhaps be better.
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