Vinaya Pitaka - Monastic Rules
Bhikkhu Vibhanga - Sekhiya 30: Accept food in proportion to the bowl, without exceeding its inner rim, 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 accepted heaped-up almsfood … " …
‘I will accept almsfood at an even level,’ is a training to be observed."
One should accept almsfood at an even level. Whoever out of disrespect accepts heaped-up almsfood, 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 there are accidents, if he is mad, if he is the first wrong-doer.
The Third Division: that on arms akimbo
1 tena samayena buddho bhagavā sāvatthiyaṃ viharati jetavane anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme. tena kho pana samayena chabbaggiyā bhikkhū thūpīkataṃ piṇḍapātaṃ paṭiggaṇhanti … pe … .
2 "samatittikaṃ piṇḍapātaṃ paṭiggahessāmīti sikkhā karaṇīyā"ti. (30:175)
3 samatittiko piṇḍapāto paṭiggahetabbo. yo anādariyaṃ paṭicca thūpīkataṃ piṇḍapātaṃ paṭiggaṇhāti, āpatti dukkaṭassa.
4 anāpatti— asañcicca, assatiyā, ajānantassa, āpadāsu, ummattakassa, ādikammikassāti.