Vinaya Pitaka - Monastic Rules
Bhikkhu Vibhanga - Sekhiya 52: Not to lick one's fingers.
- Translated from the Pali by I.B. Horner.
… in Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Now at that time the group of six monks ate licking the fingers …
‘I will not eat licking the fingers,’ is a training to be observed."
One should not eat licking the fingers … if he is the first wrong-doer.
1 tena samayena buddho bhagavā sāvatthiyaṃ viharati jetavane anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme. tena kho pana samayena chabbaggiyā bhikkhū hatthanillehakaṃ bhuñjanti … pe … .
2 "na hatthanillehakaṃ bhuñjissāmīti sikkhā karaṇīyā"ti. (52:197)
3 na hatthanillehakaṃ bhuñjitabbaṃ. yo anādariyaṃ paṭicca hatthanillehakaṃ bhuñjati, āpatti dukkaṭassa.