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四分律刪補隨機羯磨 2.475

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(The Buddha said: "There are two kinds of food for monks. First is improper food: namely root food, branch, leaf, flower, and fruit food, oil, sesame, brown sugar, ground fine powder; or if gruel comes out of the cauldron and leaves no trace when drawn through with grass—these are not food, not an invitation, and not food that satiates. Second is proper food: namely cooked grain, parched grain, dried cooked rice, fish, meat, and the like; this is an invitation, this is food, and this satiates. If, among proper foods, or after having eaten to satisfaction and satiation, one gives up deportment without performing the procedure for making food remainder-food, and obtains and eats it, it is a pāyattika with every swallow." If one relies on the Mahāsāṃghika-vinaya, provided that the former food was sufficient to satiate, and with every swallow one has already given up deportment, if one eats again, it is called an offense of satiation. Furthermore, relying on the Root Vinaya, when monks who undertook not to perform the procedure for making food remainder-food saw a senior monk arrive, they told him: "I have undertaken not to perform the procedure for making food remainder-food," and thus without needing to rise they could finish their meal; hence we know that the previous circumstance was satiation. If one rises, one must perform the procedure for making food remainder-food. Furthermore, the same applies in the nuns' precept on revering the saṃgha; hence we know that nuns also have the procedure for making food remainder-food. If one incurs an offense of satiation, one brings the food before someone who is not yet satiated, and says:)

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