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Bhattādakasuttaṃ [AN 5.138, PTS 3.157]

8.

The Discourse on the Eater of Meals

138.More DetailsCommentaries "Monks, a king's elephant possessed of five factors is a food-eater and a space-occupier and a dung-dropper and a voting-ticket-taker, and is reckoned simply as a king's elephant. Which five? Here, monks, a king's elephant is not patient with forms, not patient with sounds, not patient with odours, not patient with flavours, not patient with tangible objects. Monks, a king's elephant possessed of these five factors is a food-eater and a space-occupier and a dung-dropper and a voting-ticket-taker, and is reckoned simply as a king's elephant.

"So too, monks, a monk possessed of five qualities is a food-eater and a space-occupier and a bed-and-chair-crusher and a voting-ticket-taker, and is reckoned simply as a monk. Which five? Here, monks, a monk is not patient with forms, not patient with sounds, not patient with odours, not patient with flavours, not patient with tangible objects. Monks, a monk possessed of these five qualities is a food-eater and a space-occupier and a bed-and-chair-crusher and a voting-ticket-taker, and is reckoned simply as a monk." The eighth.

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