Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c22.20

c22.20

¹ Once Devadatta tried to utilize this concession to discredit the Saṁgha by urging that the genuine Bhikkhus should be dwellers of woods and must not go to villages; should beg for alms and not accept invitations; should clothe themselves in cast-off rags and not accept gifts of robes from laymen; should dwell under the trees and not under a roof; and should abstain from fish. But the Buddha left the exceptions to the free choice of the monks themselves [*Chullav.*, vii, 3, 14, 15].