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V. Rules as to Food —contd.
Vanaprastha Sannyasi
ground (or elsewhere, the vegetables called) Bhustrina and Sigruka, and the Sleshmantaka fruits.”
VI. 15 “Let him throw away in the mouth of Asvina the food of ascetics, which he formerly collected, likewise his worn-out clothes and his vegetables, roots and fruit.”
VI. 16 “Let him not eat anything (grown on) ploughed (land), though it may have been thrown away by somebody, nor roots and fruit grown in a village, though (he may be) tormented (by hunger).”
VI. 17 “He may eat either what has been cooked with fire, or what has been ripened by time; he either may use a stone for grinding or his teeth may be his mortar.”
VI. 18 “He may either at once (after his daily meal) cleanse (his vessel for collecting food), or lay up a store sufficient for a month, or gather what suffices for six months or for a year.”
VI. 19 “Having collected food according to his ability, he may either eat at night (only), or in the day-time (only) or at every fourth meal-time or at every eighth.”
VI. 20 “Or, he may live according to the rule of the lunar penance (Kandrayana, daily diminishing the
lies motionless, when the members have been extinguished, when the people have finished their meal, when the remnants in the dishes have been removed let the ascetic always go to beg.”
VI. 57 “ Let him not be sorry when he obtains nothing, nor rejoice when he obtains (something), let him (accept) so much only as will sustain life, let him not care about the (quality of his) utensils.
VI. 58 “Let him disdain all (food) obtained in consequence of humble salutations, (for) even an ascetic who has attained final liberation, is bound (with the fetters of the Samsara) by accepting (food given) in consequence of humble salutations.”