The Story of Five Hundred Boys
…oys. One day, on the occasion of a certain festival, as the Buddha, accompanied by the eighty chief elders and a retinue of five hundred monks, was entering Rajagama for alms, he saw five hundred youths wit…
In this narrative, the Buddha and his monks encounter five hundred boys carrying cakes on a festival day. Despite their lack of invitation, the Buddha points out that the cakes belong to them and enco