Vinaya Texts Part 4 by Anonymous

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Published: 2014-01-01T16:00:00+00:00

rule, before it reaches the hand (of the person for whom it was intended) ^*

^ On this last clause compare the first Nissaggija, and our note there. The clause here means that the ten days of the rule in the Pitimokkha are not to begin to run, under the circumstances specified, till the set of robes has actually reached the hand of the Bhikkhu for whom they were intended.

Buddhaghosa says here: Yiva dharitvi vi na dinnam tumh^am bhante kivzxzm uppannan ti pahinitvi vi n&rokitajn, tdva gaitanam na upeti, anadhi/Mita/n na va//ati. Yad& pana dnetvi vi dinnam hoti, uppannan ti vi suta/», tato pa/Miya dasiham eva parihinun labhati.

ON MEDICAMENTS.

41

SIXTH KHANDHAKA.

(on medicaments.)

1. At that time the Blessed One dwelt at SSvatthi, in the (Jetavaoa, the park of Andtha-piw^ika. And at that time Bhikkhiis, attacked by the sickness of the hot season \ threw up the rice-milk they had drunk, and the food they had eaten. And thereby they became lean, rough, ill-favoured, yellow and ever yellower, and the veins stood out on their limbs ^

And the Blessed One saw those Bhikkhus thus lean, rough, ill-favoured, yellow and ever yellower, and with the veins standing out on their limbs. And on seeing it, he asked the venerable Ananda: ' How is it, Ananda, that the Bhikkhus are become now so lean, rough, &c,?*

* At this time, Lord, the Bhikkhus are attacked With the disease of the hot season ; and they throw up the rice*milk they have drunk, and the food they have eaten. Thence is it that they are become lean, rough, ill-favoured, yellow and ever yellower, and that the veins stand out on their limbs/

2, Then there occurred to the mind of tlie

" SSradikena abadhend 'ti sarada-kile uppannena pittabddbena, Tasmiwi hi kAle vassodakena pi teraenti, kaddama^w pi maddanli, aniaranlara atapo pi kharo hoti, Tena tesaw pittaiw ko^/Aabbhan-lara-gataw hoti (B.)*

• Read in the text Dhamani-santata-gatt^; and compare Lalita Vistara, p. 226, and Professor Weber's * Bhagavali/ Ih 289.

Blessed One, when meditating alone, this consideration : * At this time the Bhikkhus (&c., down to:) on their limbs. What medicaments shall I now prescribe for the Bhikkhus, as may be authorised as common medicine, and may be diffused through the body, though it be not regarded as ordinary (material) food ?' And the Blessed One thought: * These five medicaments—that is to say, ghee, butter, oil, honey, molasses—are such medicaments. Let me then prescribe them as medicines which the Bhikkhus may accept at the right time, and use at the right time.'

3. And in the evening, when the Blessed One had arisen from his meditation, having delivered a religious discourse, he addressed the Bhikkhus in that connection, saying,

* When I was meditating alone, O Bhikkhus, then occurred to my mind this consideration: " At this time (&c., as in § 2, down to :) material food." Then I thought: " These five (&c., as in § 2, down to:) at the right time." I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, these five things as medicine to be accepted at the right time, and to be used at the right time.

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