Vinaya Pitaka - Monastic Rules
Bhikkhu Vibhanga - Sekhiya 48: Not to scatter the rice when eating.
- Translated from the Pali by I.B. Horner.
… in Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Now at that time the group of six monks ate scattering lumps of boiled rice … " …
‘I will not eat scattering lumps of boiled rice,’ is a training to be observed."
One should not eat scattering lumps of boiled rice. Whoever out of disrespect eats scattering lumps of boiled rice, 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, getting rid of the crumbs, a lump of boiled rice is got rid of, if there are accidents, if he is mad, if he is the first wrongdoer.
1 tena samayena buddho bhagavā sāvatthiyaṃ viharati jetavane anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme. tena kho pana samayena chabbaggiyā bhikkhū sitthāvakārakaṃ bhuñjanti … pe … .
2 "na sitthāvakārakaṃ bhuñjissāmīti sikkhā karaṇīyā"ti. (48:193)
3 na sitthāvakārakaṃ bhuñjitabbaṃ. yo anādariyaṃ paṭicca sitthāvakārakaṃ bhuñjati, āpatti dukkaṭassa.
4 anāpatti— asañcicca, assatiyā, ajānantassa, gilānassa, kacavaraṃ chaḍḍento sitthaṃ chaḍḍayati, āpadāsu, ummattakassa, ādikammikassāti.