A Paribbájiká.

She once saw Sáriputta in Rájagaha eating his meal, which he had begged from house to house, leaning against a wall. Sucimukhí asked him why he looked downwards while eating. When Sáriputta 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 as divination, nor by star gazing, going errands, or palmistry.

Sucimukhí understood, and went about Rájagaha praising the blamelessness of Sákiyan monks. S.iii.238f.; SA.ii.253.


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