尼羯磨 3.81

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The procedure for making leftover food: (There are two kinds of food: first, staple food; second, non-staple food. Non-staple food refers to roots, stems, and so forth. These are not staple food, and do not constitute satiety. Staple food refers to boiled rice, parched barley meal, dried rice, fish, and meat. If gruel has just come out of the pot and when drawn through with grass does not close up, it is staple food and may not be eaten. Among the five staple foods, if one has eaten any one of the foods to full satisfaction, relinquished the deportment, and without performing the procedure for leftover food eats the five staple foods again, for every swallow she commits a pāyattika. If she wishes to eat, she takes the food to a bhikṣuṇī who has not yet eaten to satisfaction, and speaks as follows:)