{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe17/sbe17035.htm","path":"bud/sbe17/sbe17035.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe17/sbe17035.htm","text":"1. Now at that time edible fruit was very plentiful in S\u00e2vatthi, but there was no one to make it allowable 2. And the Bhikkhus, fearing to offend, would not eat of it.\nThey told that thing to the Blessed One.\n'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 3.'\n78:2 See above, VI, 17, 7.\n78:3 Buddhaghosa says, ab\u00eegan ti taruna-phalam; yassa b\u00eegam a\u1e45kuram na ganeti. Nibbatta-b\u00eegan (nivatta-b\u00eegan?) ti b\u00eegam nibbattetva (nivattetv\u00e2?) apanetv\u00e2.","title":"SBE 17: Sixth Khandhaka: Chapter 21","type":"page"}