Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c6.3626

v1.c6.3626

But elsewhere⁵ even the Buddha is represented as having been lightly regarded by them. When it was reported to them that the Buddha lived on only one meal a day and found that it made him well and healthy, their reply was that they themselves ate in the evening and the early morning and at noon and outside prescribed hours, and that they found this quite agreeable and saw no reason for changing their mode of life. It is true, however, that even on this occasion when the Buddha sent for them, they came dutifully and listened patiently to his admonition on the necessity of implicit obedience to a teacher in whom they had faith, and we are told that they were "even gladdened in their hearts" after hearing the Buddha. There is, however, no evidence that they reformed after hearing him.