Vinaya Pitaka - Monastic Rules
Bhikkhu Vibhanga - Sekhiya 53: Not to lick the bowl when eating.
- Translated from the Pali by I.B. Horner.
… in Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Now at that time the group of six monks ate licking the bowl … " …
‘I will not eat licking the bowl,’ is a training to be observed."
One should not eat licking the bowl …
There is no offence if it is unintentional … if he is ill, if from an insignificant remainder he eats having collected, having licked at one side, 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 pattanillehakaṃ bhuñjanti … pe … .
2 "na pattanillehakaṃ bhuñjissāmīti sikkhā karaṇīyā"ti. (53:198)
3 na pattanillehakaṃ bhuñjitabbaṃ. yo anādariyaṃ paṭicca pattanillehakaṃ bhuñjati, āpatti dukkaṭassa.
4 anāpatti— asañcicca, assatiyā, ajānantassa, gilānassa, parittake sese ekato sankaḍḍhitvā nillehitvā bhuñjati, āpadāsu, ummattakassa, ādikammikassāti.