Because of this, monks needed to supply the least amount of food required to maintain their bodies from believers other than the monks, and under such a situation, exchanges between monks, who are usually involved in ascetic practices in mountains and woods and do not relate much to other people, and believers who live in towns and villages were born.
したがって、出家者が生存するためには身体を維持させるために最低限の食料を出家者以外から調達する必要があり、そうした状況下から、ふだん山地や森林で修行しその他の人々とは関わることが少ない出家者と、町村で生活している信者との間に托鉢による交流関係が発生した。