此經在 Kīṭāgiri 對被稱為 Assaji-Punabbasukā 的一群比丘所說：他們譏笑效彷彿陀與虔誠弟子一日一食的做法，佛陀藉此強調自己的一切教法皆本於親證的經驗與智慧，理應依教奉行而非妄加戲論。

A discourse taught at Kīṭāgiri to the group of monks known as the Assaji-Punabbasukā, who had ridiculed the practice of eating only one meal a day as the Buddha and his committed disciples did, in which the Buddha insists that all his teachings rest on his own experience and knowledge and must be followed without such carping.