Mahavogga 6.21

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Adapted from the Translation by T. W. Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg

MAHAVAGGA

SIXTH KHANDHAKA(ON MEDICAMENTS)

Chapter-21.

1. Now at that time edible fruit was very plentiful in Savatthi, but there was no one to make it allowable. And the Bhikkhus, fearing to offend, would not eat of it.

They told that thing to the Lord Buddha.

'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.'