Sucimukhī
PersonMột nữ du sĩ đã hỏi Tôn giả Sāriputta ở Rājagaha về cách ông thọ dụng vật thực khất thực, và khi hài lòng với lời giải thích rằng ông tránh xa các thuật thấp kém như bói toán và chiêm tinh, bà đã đi khắp nơi ca ngợi sự trong sạch của các tỳ-kheo của Đức Phật.
A wanderer (paribbājikā).
She once saw Sāriputta in Rājagaha eating his meal, which he had begged from house to house, leaning against a wall. Sucimukhī asked him why he looked downwards while eating. When Sāriputta disclaimed doing so, she asked him, respectively, why he ate looking upwards, towards the four quarters, between the four quarters. He denied the truth of all her statements, and then explained to her his reason for his denial. He lived neither by such low arts (tiracchānavijjāya) as divination (vatthuvijjā),¹ nor by astrology (nakkhattavijjā), running errands (dūteyyapahiṇagamanānuyogāya), or palmistry (aṅgavijjātiracchānavijjāya).
Sucimukhī understood, and went about Rājagaha praising the blamelessness of the Sakyan monks. S.iii.238 f; SA.ii.253.
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