四分律行事鈔資持記 2.1465

2.1465

The precept against scattering rice by crumbling it in the hand. (The censure states, 'Like chickens and birds.') Some recite this as 'pawing,' which is incorrect; this refers to crumbling it while grasping it in the hand. Contrasted with the previous dropping and shaking, the specific marks must be distinguished: remnants falling from the hand is dropping; waving them away to the left and right is called shaking the hand; grasping and crumbling them so they fall is crumbling by hand.