Vinaya Pitaka - Monastic Rules
Bhikkhu Vibhanga - Sekhiya 29: Not to accept more than one ration of curry for every three rations of rice when going to collect food.
- Translated from the Pali by I.B. Horner.
… in Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Now at that time the group of six monks, accepting almsfood, accepted also much curry … " …
‘I will accept almsfood with equal curry,’ is a training to be observed."
Curry means: there are two kinds of curry, bean curry, kidney-bean curry, that may be conveyed by hand. Almsfood with equal curry should be accepted. Whoever out of disrespect accepts also much curry, there is an offence of wrong-doing.
There is no offence if it is unintentional, if he is not thinking, if he does not know, if he is ill, if it is of another flavour, if it belongs to relations, if it is offered, if it is for another, if it is by means of his own property, if there are accidents, if he is mad, if he is the first wrongdoer.
1 tena samayena buddho bhagavā sāvatthiyaṃ viharati jetavane anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme. tena kho pana samayena chabbaggiyā bhikkhū piṇḍapātaṃ paṭiggaṇhantā sūpaññeva bahuṃ paṭiggaṇhanti … pe … .
2 "samasūpakaṃ piṇḍapātaṃ paṭiggahessāmīti sikkhā karaṇīyā"ti. (29:174)
3 sūpo nāma dve sūpā— muggasūpo, māsasūpo. hatthahāriyo samasūpako piṇḍapāto paṭiggahetabbo. yo anādariyaṃ paṭicca sūpaññeva bahuṃ paṭiggaṇhāti, āpatti dukkaṭassa.
4 anāpatti— asañcicca, assatiyā, ajānantassa, gilānassa, rasarase, ñātakānaṃ pavāritānaṃ, aññassatthāya, attano dhanena, āpadāsu, ummattakassa, ādikammikassāti.