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取歸婦價客道糧過三鉢戒第三十四　制意者。然歸婦價客捨已塗糧施請比丘。理宜將護依限而取。今乃過取三鉢令食磬竭。長貪違教。損惱不輕。故所以制　別緣具五。一歸婦食價客道糧。二知是。三無因緣。除有病緣不犯。四取過三鉢。五出門便犯。已下正明戒本。此戒因乞比丘。從彼歸婦取塗糧。又從高客數乞因起過失。佛便制戒。

Precept Thirty-Four: Receiving More Than Two or Three Bowls of Travel Provisions from a Married Woman or Merchant.

The intention of the precept is: When a married woman or merchant gives up their own travel provisions to offer and invite a monk, it is right and proper to show consideration and accept within the limit. If one now excessively takes more than three bowls, exhausting their food, it fosters greed and violates the teaching, causing non-trivial annoyance and loss; therefore it was instituted.

There are five specific conditions: 1. Food of a married woman or travel provisions of a merchant. 2. Knowing it to be so. 3. There is no special circumstance, except for the circumstance of illness which is not an offense. 4. Taking more than three bowls. 5. Committing [the offense] upon exiting the gate. Below, the Prātimokṣa text is properly clarified. This precept arose because a mendicant monk took travel provisions from that married woman, and also repeatedly begged from a merchant, whereby faults arose; thus the Buddha instituted this precept.