Vinaya Pitaka - Monastic Rules
Bhikkhu Vibhanga - Sekhiya 47: Not to shake the hands about when eating.
- Translated from the Pali by I.B. Horner.
… in Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Now at that time the group of six monks ate shaking the hands about. … " …
‘I will not eat shaking the hands about,’ is a training to be observed."
One should not eat shaking the hands about. Whoever out of disrespect eats shaking the hands about, 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 he shakes the hands about getting rid of the crumbs, 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 hatthaniddhunakaṃ bhuñjanti … pe … .
2 "na hatthaniddhunakaṃ bhuñjissāmīti sikkhā karaṇīyā"ti. (47:192)
3 na hatthaniddhunakaṃ bhuñjitabbaṃ. yo anādariyaṃ paṭicca hatthaniddhunakaṃ bhuñjati, āpatti dukkaṭassa.
4 anāpatti— asañcicca, assatiyā, ajānantassa, gilānassa, kacavaraṃ chaḍḍento hatthaṃ niddhunāti, āpadāsu, ummattakassa, ādikammikassāti.