[178] Therein, Sāriputta, this was my practice of asceticism (tapassitā): I was a naked ascetic (acelaka), rejecting conventions, licking my hands; I did not come when asked to come, nor stand still when asked to stand still; I did not consent to food brought to me, nor to food prepared specifically for me, nor to an invitation to a meal. I did not receive alms from the mouth of a pot, nor from the mouth of a basket; not across a threshold, not across a stick, not across a pestle; not from two people eating together; not from a pregnant woman, not from a woman nursing a child, not from a woman gone in among men; not from food gathered by announcement; not where a dog was standing by, not where flies were swarming in clusters. I accepted no fish, no meat; I drank no liquor, no wine, no fermented husk-water. I was a one-house man, a one-morsel man; a two-house man, a two-morsel man …; a seven-house man, a seven-morsel man. I sustained myself on one small offering (datti), on two small offerings …, on seven small offerings. I took food once a day, took food once every two days …, took food once every seven days; thus I dwelt devoted to the practice of eating food at stated intervals, even up to half a month. I fed on potherbs, or fed on millet, or fed on wild rice, or fed on scraps of hide-parings (daddula), or fed on water-plants, or fed on rice bran, or fed on the scum of boiled rice, or fed on sesame flour, or fed on grass, or fed on cow dung; I sustained myself on forest roots and fruits, feeding on fallen fruit. I wore garments of coarse hemp, wore garments of hemp mixed with other fibres, wore shrouds taken from corpses, wore rag-robes (paṃsukūla), wore garments of tirīṭa bark, wore antelope hides, wore strips of antelope hide, wore a garment of kusa grass, wore a garment of bark, wore a garment of wood shavings, wore a blanket of human hair, wore a blanket of animal hair, wore owls' wings. I was a plucker-out of hair and beard, devoted to the practice of plucking out hair and beard; I was a continual stander, rejecting seats; I was a squatter, devoted to the exertion of squatting; I used a bed of thorns, making my bed upon thorns; I dwelt devoted to the practice of going down into the water three times daily, including the evening. Thus in such various ways I dwelt devoted to the practice of tormenting and mortifying the body. Such, Sāriputta, was my practice of asceticism.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.