法苑珠林 94.28

94.28

Furthermore, the Sūtra on the Retributions of the Five Pungent Roots says: "The seven assemblies must not eat meat or pungent roots when chanting and reciting sūtras and treatises; to do so incurs an offense. For illness there is an exception: one consumes them in a layperson's house outside the saṃghārāma. After a full forty-nine days have elapsed, having bathed in perfumed water, only then is one permitted to chant and recite the sūtras and treatises without transgression."