Vinaya (2): The Mahavagga
by T. W. Rhys Davids | 1881 | 156,382 words
The Mahavagga (part of the Vinaya collection) includes accounts of Gautama Buddha鈥檚 and the ten principal disciples鈥� awakenings, as well as rules for ordination, rules for reciting the Patimokkha during uposatha days, and various monastic procedures....
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Mahavagga, Khandaka 6, Chapter 21
1. Now at that time edible fruit was very plentiful in 厂腻惫补迟迟丑颈, but there was no one to make it allowable[1]. And the Bhikkhus, fearing to offend, would not eat of it.
They told that thing to the Blessed One.
'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to eat fruit which has not yet had any seed in it, or which has no more seed in it, even without any one being there to make it allowable[2].'
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
See above, VI, 17, 7.
[2]:
Buddhaghosa says, ab墨jan ti taru峁嘺-phala峁�; yassa b墨ga峁� a峁卥ura峁� na janeti. Nibbatta-b墨jan (nivatta-b墨jan?) ti b墨ga峁� nibbattetva (nivattetv膩?) apanetv膩.