Early Monastic Buddhism v1.c16.18

v1.c16.18

In the *Pātimokkha-sutta*, there is a number of restrictions imposed on a monk for the manner in which he should take food, and a series of instructions concerning the right ways of collecting his food, but even all those instructions cannot naturally be exhaustive, so Buddhaghosa says that a bhikkhu must avoid committing offence relating to *ājīva* but not falling within the scope of the *Pātimokkha* rules, e.g. a bhikkhu may, by talks or signs or direct or indirect hints, persuade the believing laity to offer gifts of food, dress or other requisites to himself, or may take recourse to the various means enumerated in the *Brahmajālasutta* not befitting a Buddhist monk.³ (iv) *Paccayasannissitasīla*