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’s and the ten principal disciples’ awakenings, as well as rules for ordination, rules for reciting the Patimokkha during uposatha days, and various monastic procedures....
Mahavagga, Khandaka 6, Chapter 21
1. Now at that time edible fruit was very plentiful in Sāvatthi, 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, abījan ti taruṇa-phalaṃ; yassa bīgaṃ aṅkuraṃ na janeti. Nibbatta-bījan (nivatta-bījan?) ti bīgaṃ nibbattetva (nivattetvā?) apanetvā.