Puggalapannatti 2.4.110.3

2.4.110.3

So ekāgāriko vā hoti ekālopiko, dvāgāriko vā hoti dvālopiko …pe…

Here a person goes naked, is of loose habits; licks his hand clean, does not stop nearer or wait a moment if politely requested to do so, refuses to accept food brought to him, refuses to accept food especially prepared for him, does not accept any invitation, does not accept food from a cooking-pot or a pan, does not accept food placed within the threshold, does not accept food placed among the pestles, does not accept food when two persons are eating together, does not accept from a woman with child, from a woman giving suck, from a woman living as a wife, does not accept food offered at consecrated places, does not accept food when a dog is standing by, nor where flies are swarming down, does not accept fish, or flesh, or strong drink, or intoxicant, or sour gruel, begs from one house, eats just one morsel, or begs from two houses, eats just two morsels, or begs from up to seven houses, eats up to seven morsels, keeps himself going on only one alms or only two … up to seven alms, takes only once a day or once every two days, or once every seven days, conforming in this way to the practice of taking food according to rule, at regular intervals, up to even half a month, feeds on pot-herbs, on wild rice, on Nivāra rice, on Daddūla rice, on unhusked grain, on grains of rice or scum of rice, on oil cakes, on grasses, on cow dung, on fruits and roots from the woods, on fruits that have fallen of themselves, wears coarse hempen cloth, coarse cloth of mixed fibres, wears cloth taken from a dead body, clothing made of dust-heap rags, clothing made of bark, the skin of a black antelope, dress made of a black antelope's hide, dress made of kusa grass, garments made of bark, garments made of pieces of wood, hair-garments, garments made up of horse's. tails, garments made up of feathers of owls; he is a plucker-out of hair and beard, addicted to the practice of plucking out both hair and beard; he is a stander-up rejecting the use of a seat, he is a squatter addicted to the effort of squatting, he is a bed-of-thorns-man, lying on a bed of thorns, he is addicted to the practice of going down into water thrice a day up to the evening. Thus he dwells addicted to many such tortures of the body. Thus does he become a self-mortifier and addicted to practices tending to self-mortification.