Vinaya Pitaka - Monastic Rules
Bhikkhu Vibhanga - Sekhiya 45: Not to eat breaking up the mouthfuls.
- Translated from the Pali by I.B. Horner.
… in Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Now at that time the group of six monks ate, breaking up the mouthfuls … " …
‘I will not eat breaking up the mouthfuls,’ is a training to be observed."
One should not eat breaking up the mouthfuls. Whoever out of disrespect eats breaking up the mouthfuls, 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 they are solid victuals, all sorts of fruits, dainties, 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 kabaḷāvacchedakaṃ bhuñjanti … pe … .
2 "na kabaḷāvacchedakaṃ bhuñjissāmīti sikkhā karaṇīyā"ti. (45:190)
3 na kabaḷāvacchedakaṃ bhuñjitabbaṃ. yo anādariyaṃ paṭicca kabaḷāvacchedakaṃ bhuñjati, āpatti dukkaṭassa.
4 anāpatti— asañcicca, assatiyā, ajānantassa, gilānassa, khajjake phalāphale, uttaribhange, āpadāsu, ummattakassa, ādikammikassāti.