The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c10.91

c10.91

§155. What food has been received on a round for alms (*piṇḍavāya*) must be shown to the Guru (Āyār. II 67, 4; Dasav. 5, 2, 31) and it must be sufficient for the needs of a healthy person, while only he who feels weak (*no samtharai*) may repeat the round (K. 5, 54; Dasav. 5, 22), as a nun may a when having received but very little, a *pulāga-bhatta*, as the figurative expression has it. 32 bits (*kavala*) of egg size are considered a normal quantity (Viy. 292a—Uvav. 30 II—Vav. 8, 18). As was pointed out above, the round may be done but once in a day, during the 3rd *porisi*, and what has been received must be consumed within a certain spacial and, hence, also temporal limit.¹ To receive food in the dark is forbidden by K. 1, 43, and it is out of the question to consume it as *rāi-bhoyaṇa* (§ 171), comp. K. 5, 6-91, nor is it allowed to keep it for the next day (K. 5, 49) except in cases of heavy illness. But yet K. 4, 11—Nis. 12, 30 and Viy. 291b refer to food received during the 1st *porisi*, i.e. in the morning. It remains but to assume that in this case it was brought to the monk² and this must equally apply to such food as was accepted before sunrise and consumed after it (Viy. 291 b). That there is an early meal is also demonstrated by calling certain fastings by the name of *cauttha-bhatta* and the like (§ 156).