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VIII, 1, 24.
THE DRESS OF THE BHIKKHUS.
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orders to the physician Givaka ; he will cure me.' Then the Magadha king Seniya Bimbisâra gave orders to Givaka Komarabhakka (saying), 'Go, my dear Glvaka; go to Uggeni, and cure king Paggota.'
Givaka Komârabhakka accepted this order of the Magadha king Seniya Bimbisâra (by saying), ‘Yes, Your Majesty,' went to Uggent and to the place where king Paggota was, and having approached him, and having carefully observed the change in his appearance, he said to king Paggota :
24. 'I will boil up some ghee, Sire, which Your Majesty must drink.'
Nay, my good Givaka; do what you can for restoring me without giving me ghee; I have an aversion and a distaste for ghee.'
Then Gfvaka Komârabhakka thought: 'The disease of this king is such a one that it cannot be cured without ghee. What if I were to boil up ghee so that it takes the colour, the smell, and the taste of an astringent decoction?'
Then Givaka Komârabhakka boiled some ghee with various drugs so as to give it the colour, the smell, and the taste of an astringent decoction. And Givaka Komârabhakka thought: When this king shall have taken the butter and digęsted it, it will make him vomit. This king is cruel; he might have me killed. What if I were to take leave before
opinion be brought forward against Professor Jacobi's conjecture (Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morg. Gesellschaft, vol. xxxiv, p. 188) that Bimbisâra was merely a feudal chief under the supreme rule of king Paggota. The Pitaka texts are always very exact in the selection of the terms of respect in which the different persons address each other.
See, about the decoctions used in medicine, VI, 4.
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| SR No. | 007676 |
| Book Title | Text of Confucianism Part 02 |
| 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 |