Vinaya Pitaka - Monastic Rules
Bhikkhu Vibhanga - Sekhiya 46: Not to eat stuffing the cheeks.
- Translated from the Pali by I.B. Horner.
… in Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Now at that time the group of six monks ate stuffing the cheeks … " …
‘I will not eat stuffing the cheeks,’ is a training to be observed."
One should not eat stuffing the cheeks. Whoever out of disrespect eats, having stuffed the cheek on one side or on both, 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 all sorts of fruits, 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 avagaṇḍakārakaṃ bhuñjanti … pe … .
2 "na avagaṇḍakārakaṃ bhuñjissāmīti sikkhā karaṇīyā"ti. (46:191)
3 na avagaṇḍakārakaṃ bhuñjitabbaṃ. yo anādariyaṃ paṭicca ekato vā ubhato vā gaṇḍaṃ katvā bhuñjati, āpatti dukkaṭassa.
4 anāpatti— asañcicca, assatiyā, ajānantassa, gilānassa, phalāphale, āpadāsu, ummattakassa, ādikammikassāti.