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Vivāgasuyam.
persons, patients, diseased persons having guardians or no guardians, and to the ascetics, Brahmins, beggars, beggars carrying human skulls as their begging bowls, beggers in rags, and to other sick persons. To some of these he prescribed the flesh of fish, to some that of a tortoise, to some that of a crocodile, to some that of an alligator, to some that of a 'sumsumāra' crocodile, to some that of a goat; in this way to others that of a ram, a 'rojza,' a hog, a deer, a hare, a cow or a buffalo; to some that of a 'tittira' bird, to some that of sparrows, “lavaka birds, pigeons,' hens, peacocks and that of many other water animals, land animals and birds (lit. animals moving in the sky) etc.; and that physician Dhannantari, himself, used to eat and taste the flesh of those many fish (here the rest to be supplied as above, dɔwn to that of peacocks and that of many water animals, land animals and birds, which was fried, baked and roasted to-gether with wine (6).
Then that physician Dhannantari, whose actions were of this type, having accumulated great sin and having lived his long life of thirty two hundred years and having met with death at the time of surcease, was re-born in the sixth region of hell the maximum duration of life where is twenty two Sāgarovamas.
Now, the house'wife Gangadattā was "Jāyaninduyā' (a woman who gives birth to dead children). She gave birth to children who died
