Shloka 12
Pratyakṣa–Āgama–Ācāra: Doubt, Proof, and the Practice of Dharma (प्रत्यक्ष–आगम–आचारविचारः)
वे वायु अथवा जल पीकर रहें। सेवारका भोजन करें। पत्थरसे अन्न या फलको कूँचकर खायाँ अथवा दाँतोंसे चबाकर ही भक्षण करें। सम्प्रक्षालके नियमसे रहें अर्थात् दूसरे दिनके लिये आहार संग्रह करके न रखें ।।
vāyuṃ athavā jalaṃ pītvā tiṣṭheyur; sevāraka-bhojanaṃ kuryuḥ; pāṣāṇena annaṃ phalaṃ vā kuṭṭayitvā khādeyuḥ athavā dantair eva carvitvā bhakṣayeyuḥ; samprakṣālaka-niyamena tiṣṭheyur, arthāt dvitīya-dināya āhāra-saṃgrahaṃ na kuryuḥ. cīra-valkala-saṃvītair mṛga-carma-nivāsibhiḥ kāryā yātrā yathā-kālaṃ yathā-dharmaṃ yathā-vidhi.
マヘーシュヴァラは言った。「彼らは風を飲むか水を飲むかして身を支え、あるいは奉仕によって得たものだけを受け取って生きよ。穀物や果実は石で砕いてから食し、さもなくば歯で噛むだけで口にせよ。『サンプラクシャーラカ（samprakṣālaka）』の戒に住し—すなわち翌日のために食を蓄えぬこと。ぼろ布と樹皮をまとい、鹿皮で身を覆い、旅—聖地巡礼など—は時宜にかなう時にのみ、ダルマのため、定められた儀軌に従って行うべきである。」
श्रीमहेश्वर उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches rigorous ascetic restraint: minimal and regulated intake, avoidance of storing food, simple clothing, and undertaking travel (especially pilgrimage) only when timely and dharmically justified, following proper rules.
Śrī Maheśvara is instructing on the conduct of renunciants/ascetics—how they should eat, avoid hoarding, dress in austere garments, and travel for sacred purposes in a disciplined, rule-governed manner.