僧羯磨 3.109

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Procedure for Making Leftover Food (There are two kinds of food: first, principal food; second, non-principal food. Non-principal food refers to root foods, stalk foods, and the like; these are not principal foods and do not constitute satisfaction. Principal foods refer to cooked rice, parched barley meal, dried cooked rice, fish, and meat. If porridge freshly taken from the cauldron does not close up when drawn with a blade of grass, it is principal food, and must not be eaten. Among the five kinds of food, if one has eaten any one of them to satisfaction, has departed from the deportment, and without performing the leftover food procedure eats again, it is a prāyaścittika for every swallow. If one wishes to eat, one brings the food to a bhikṣu who has not yet eaten to satisfaction, and speaks thus:)