{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe20/sbe20106.htm","path":"bud/sbe20/sbe20106.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe20/sbe20106.htm","text":"1. Now at that time the people gave food to the Bhikkhus, and the Bhikkhus gave to the Bhikkhun\u00ees. The people murmured, were indignant, and complained, saying: 'How can their reverences give away to others what was given for them to have--as if we did not know how to give gifts?'\nThey told this matter to the Blessed One.\n'A Bhikkhu, O Bhikkhus, is not to give away to others what was given for them themselves to have. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata.'\nNow at that time the Bhikkhus had come into the possession of some (meat for) food. They told this matter to the Blessed One.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to give it to the Samgha.'\nToo much came into their possession.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to give away that which was given to special individuals (and to keep that which had come into the possession of the Samgha as a whole 1).'\nNow at that time food, which had been stored up for the Bhikkhus, had come into their possession.\n'I allow food that has been stored up to be enjoyed by the Bhikkhun\u00ees after they have had it given over to them by the Bhikkhus.'\n2. [The same repeated, reading Bhikkhun\u00ee for Bhikkhu, and vice vers\u00e2.]\n346:1 Puggalikam d\u00e2tum. On this phrase compare the similar one below at X, 24. Buddhaghosa has no note either here or there.","title":"SBE 20: Tenth Khandhaka: Chapter 15","type":"page"}