Text of Confucianism Part 02

SR No.: 007676
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Legge
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1882
Total Pages: 2405
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 43 MB

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VIII, 1, 14. THE DRESS OF THE BHIKKHUS.
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13. And Givaka Komârabhakka drove away the disease in the head which the setthi's wife had had for seven years, by once giving her medicine through the nose. Then the setthi's wife, who had been restored to health, gave four thousand (kâhâpanas) to Givaka Komârabhakka; her son (thinking), My mother stands there restored,' gave him four thousand; her daughter-in-law (thinking), ‘My motherin-law stands there restored,' gave him four thousand; the setthi, the householder, (thinking), “My wife stands there restored,' gave him four thousand and a man-servant and a maid-servant and a coach with horses.
Then Glvaka Komârabhakka took those sixteen thousand (kâhâpanas) and the man-servant, the maidservant, and the coach with the horses, and set out for Râgagaha. In due course he came to Râgagaha, and to the place where the royal prince Abhaya was; having approached him he said to the royal prince Abhaya : 'This, Your Highness, (have I received for) the first work I have done, sixteen thousand and a man-servant and a maid-servant and a coach with horses; may Your Highness accept this as payment for my bringing up.'
'Nay, my dear Glvaka, keep it, but do not get a dwelling for yourself elsewhere than in our residence.'
Glvaka Komârabhakka accepted this order of the royal prince Abhaya (saying), 'Yes, Your Highness,' and got himself a dwelling in the residence of the royal prince Abhaya.
14. At that time the Magadha king Seniya Bimbisára suffered from a fistula ; his garments were stained with blood. When the queens saw that,
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