Vinaya Pitaka - Monastic Rules
Bhikkhu Vibhanga - Sekhiya 34: Eat with a ratio of one part of curry to three parts of rice.
- Translated from the Pali by I.B. Horner.
… in Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Now at that time the group of six monks, eating almsfood, ate also much curry … " …
‘I will eat 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 eaten. Whoever out of disrespect eats 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 by means of his own properties, if there are accidents, if he is mad, if he is the first wrong-doer.
1 tena samayena buddho bhagavā sāvatthiyaṃ viharati jetavane anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme. tena kho pana samayena chabbaggiyā bhikkhū piṇḍapātaṃ bhuñjantā sūpaññeva bahuṃ bhuñjanti … pe … .
2 "samasūpakaṃ piṇḍapātaṃ bhuñjissāmīti sikkhā karaṇīyā"ti. (34:179)
3 sūpo nāma dve sūpā— muggasūpo, māsasūpo hatthahāriyo. samasūpako piṇḍapāto bhuñjitabbo. yo anādariyaṃ paṭicca sūpaññeva bahuṃ bhuñjati, āpatti dukkaṭassa.
4 anāpatti— asañcicca, assatiyā, ajānantassa, gilānassa, rasarase, ñātakānaṃ pavāritānaṃ, attano dhanena, āpadāsu, ummattakassa, ādikammikassāti.