[192] And what, bhikkhus, is the danger of crocodiles (kumbhīlabhaya)? Here, bhikkhus, some clansman has gone forth out of faith from the home life into homelessness, thinking: 'I am immersed in birth, aging, death (jāti, jarā, maraṇa), in sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair; I am immersed in suffering (dukkha), beset by suffering. Perhaps an end to this entire mass of suffering might be discerned.' When he has thus gone forth, his companions in the holy life advise and instruct him: 'This you may chew, this you may not chew; this you may eat, this you may not eat; this you may taste, this you may not taste; this you may drink, this you may not drink. What is allowable (kappiya) you may chew, what is unallowable you may not chew; what is allowable you may eat, what is unallowable you may not eat; what is allowable you may taste, what is unallowable you may not taste; what is allowable you may drink, what is unallowable you may not drink. At the proper time you may chew, at the wrong time you may not chew; at the proper time you may eat, at the wrong time you may not eat; at the proper time you may taste, at the wrong time you may not taste; at the proper time you may drink, at the wrong time you may not drink.'
He thinks thus: 'Formerly, when we were laymen, whatever we wished we chewed, and whatever we did not wish we did not chew; whatever we wished we ate, and whatever we did not wish we did not eat; whatever we wished we tasted, and whatever we did not wish we did not taste; whatever we wished we drank, and whatever we did not wish we did not drink. We chewed both what was allowable and what was unallowable; we ate both what was allowable and what was unallowable; we tasted both what was allowable and what was unallowable; we drank both what was allowable and what was unallowable. We chewed both at the proper time and at the wrong time; we ate both at the proper time and at the wrong time; we tasted both at the proper time and at the wrong time; we drank both at the proper time and at the wrong time. And when faithful householders give us fine things to chew and to eat during the day, at the wrong time, it seems these bhikkhus would put a gag upon our mouths even there!' So he gives up the training and reverts to the lower life. This, bhikkhus, is called one who, frightened by the danger of crocodiles, has given up the training and reverted to the lower life. 'The danger of crocodiles,' bhikkhus, is a designation for gluttony.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.