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 27
And the Blessed One, wandering from place to place, came to Rājagaha. There the Blessed One dwelt near Rājagaha, in the Veḷuvana, at Kalandakanivāpa. At that time the Bhikkhus at Rājagaha had plenty of sugar. The Bhikkhus feared to offend (and thought): 'The Blessed One has allowed the eating of sugar only to the sick and not to the healthy,' and therefore they did not eat sugar.
They told this thing to the Blessed One.
'I allow, O Bhikkhus, to the sick the eating of sugar, and to the healthy the drinking of sugar-water.'