釋氏要覽 1.399

1.399

亦不正食攝○僧祇律云。粥出釜飦不成字。始名不正食○增輝記云。小食者粥是○讀五部律文。粥之緣起有三。初僧祇律云。佛住舍衛國。難陀母令作釜飦。逼上汁自飲。覺身中風除食消。便作念。闍梨是一食人。應當食粥。乃取多水少米。煎去二分。然後入胡椒蓽撥。未盛滿甖。持詣佛所白言。唯願世尊聽諸比丘食粥。佛許。仍為說偈（偈在後文）○次四分律云。佛在那頻頭國。因㝹沙施粥。佛許之○後十誦律云。婆羅門王阿耆達。施八般粥。謂乳酪胡麻豆摩沙荏蘇等。佛許之。

It is also subsumed under secondary food. / The Sengqi lü says: When gruel comes out of the cauldron and its grains do not form characters, only then is it called secondary food. / The Zenghui ji says: The 'small meal' is gruel. / When reading the texts of the five vinaya collections, the origin of gruel is threefold: First, the Sengqi lü says: The Buddha was dwelling in Śrāvastī. The mother of Nanda had cauldron-gruel made, pressed out the upper broth, drank it herself, and felt that the wind [humour] in her body was removed and food digested. She then thought: 'The ācāryas are people who eat one meal a day; they should eat gruel.' She then took much water and little rice, boiled away two parts, and then added black pepper and pippalī. Before the pot was filled, she took it to the Buddha's dwelling and said: 'I only pray that the World-Honoured One will permit the bhikṣus to eat gruel.' The Buddha permitted it, and furthermore spoke a verse for her (the verse is in the text below). / Second, the Sifen lü says: The Buddha was in the country of Nātika; because of Ūṣā's offering of gruel, the Buddha permitted it. / Third, the Shisong lü says: The brāhmaṇa king Agnidatta offered eight kinds of gruel, namely milk, curd, sesame, beans, māṣa, perilla seeds, and the like; the Buddha permitted it.