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VI, 17, 8.
ON MEDICAMENTS.
I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to keep food indoors.' When they kept it indoors, and cooked it out of doors, those men who practised self-mortification by living on the remains of offered food crowded round them; and the Bhikkhus ate in fear.
They told this thing to the Blessed One. 'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to cook indoors.'
In the time of scarcity, those who (by offering food, inviting Bhikkhus to their houses, &c.) made (the accepting or eating of food) allowable (to the Bhikkhus), used to take more (for themselves), and give less to the Bhikkhus.
I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to cook of your own accord. I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to cook indoors, and of your own accord, food kept indoors.'
8. Now at that time a number of Bhikkhus who had spent the rainy season in the land of Käsi, and were journeying to Rågagaha to visit the Blessed One, did not receive on the way as full a supply as they required of food, either bitter or sweet. And there was plenty of eatable fruit, but there was no one to make it allowable for them. And those Bhikkhus went on in weariness to Râgagaha, to the Veluvana, in the Kalandaka-nivâpa, where the Blessed One was. And when they had come there, they bowed down before the Blessed One, and took their seats on one side.
Now it is the custom of the Blessed Buddhas to exchange courteous greetings with Bhikkhus who
1 Buddhaghosa says, damakå ti vighâsâda. The same explanation is given in Abhidhânappadipika, verse 467, where the Sinhalese expression is indul kannâ, and the English 'one who eats orts.
See the last section.
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| SR No. | 007684 |
| Book Title | Vinaya Texts |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | T W Rhys Davids, Hermann Oldenberg |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1881 |
| Total Pages | 2523 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 47 MB |