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[Śavīkara] Also called Kapila. Rendered here as "Golden Head" or "Yellow Hair," the non-Buddhists who eat rice germ. Master Ying says: "The older rendering was 'eating rice fragments.' These non-Buddhists practiced austerities: they tied together the thumb and the third finger of the hand with an object, went to houses where grain was being pounded and rice winnowed, and with those bound fingers gathered up rice fragments. Gathering them in the palm, whatever amount they obtained, they took away to eat. If they were whole grains, they would not take them. It is also called the 'turtle-dove practice,' for non-Buddhists picking up rice resemble the walking of turtle-doves."

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