A monk or a nun on a begging-tour should not accept any such-like raw unmodified substances as sugar-cane, which is full of holes, or withering or peeling off or corroded by wolves; or the points of reeds or the pulp of plantains. (12)

The same holds good with regard to garlic or its leaves or stalk or bulb or integument. (13) Likewise with regard to cooked fruits of Atthiya , Tinduka , Vilva , Sriparni . (14)

A monk or a nun on a begging-tour should not accept such raw, unmodified substances as corn, clumps of corn, cakes of corn, sesamum, ground sesamum, or cakes of sesamum.

This is the whole duty, &c.

Thus I say. (15)

Footnotes

^108:1 Khavva, Sanskrit khabdaka (sic). The Hindi has khavda, basket.

^109:1 I.e. when they have undergone no operation which takes the life out of them.

^109:2 Name of a shrub.

^109:3 Explained by satagru.

^109:4 Boswellia Thurifera.

^109:5 Explained by pippari.

^109:6 Cedrela Toona.

^109:7 The wood-apple tree, Feronia Elephantum.

^109:8 .Amadaga, explained in the commentary amapannam, unripe or half ripe, aranikatanduliyakadi.

^110:1 Of these plants only Kaseru, a kind of grass, and Samghatika Trapa Bispinosa are specialised in our dictionaries.

^110:2 A certain tree.

^110:3 Diospyros Glutinosa.

^110:4 Aegle Marmelos.

^110:5 Pistia Stratiotes.

NINTH LESSON.

In the east or west or south or north, there are some faithful householders, &c., (all down to) servants who will speak thus: 'It is not meet that these illustrious, pious, virtuous, eloquent, restrained, controlled, chaste ascetics, who have ceased from sensual intercourse, should eat or drink food, &c., which is adhakarmika ; let us give to the ascetics all food, &c., that is ready for our use, and let us, afterwards, prepare food for our own use.' Having heard such talk, the mendicant should not accept such-like food, &c., for it is impure and unacceptable. (1)

A monk or a nun on a begging-tour or in their residence or on a pilgrimage from village to village, who know that in a village or scot-free town, &c., dwell a mendicant's nearer or remoter relations--viz. a householder or his wife, &c.--should not enter or leave such houses for the sake of food or drink. The Kevalin says: This is the reason: Seeing him, the other might, for his sake, procure or prepare food, &c. Hence it has been said to the mendicant, &c., that he should not enter or leave such houses for the sake of food or drink.

Knowing this, he should go apart and stay where no people pass or see him. In due time he may enter other houses, and having begged for alms which are acceptable and given out of respect for