Sucimukhī
Person一位女游方者,曾在王舍城质疑舍利弗用斋的姿态,闻其解释自己不依占卜星相等低俗技艺谋生后深感信服,遂四处称扬佛陀僧众的清白无染。
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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