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, 28.
THE DRESS OF THE BHIKKHUS.
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(saying), "The king orders you to return, doctor.” But those physicians, my good Káka, are cunning people ; do not accept anything from him.'
27. And the slave Kâka overtook Givaka Komarabhakka on his way, at Kosambi, when he was taking his breakfast. And the slave Kaka said to Glvaka Komârabhakka : 'The king orders you to return, doctor.'
(Glvaka replied), 'Wait, my good Kaka, until we have taken our meal; here, my good Kaka, eat.'
(Kåka said), 'Nay, doctor, the king has told me, “Those physicians, my good Kaka, are cunning people; do not accept anything from him.”
At that time Givaka Komârabhakka, who had cut off some drug with his nail, was eating an emblic myrobalan fruit and drinking water. And Givaka Komârabhakka said to the slave Kaka: 'Here, my good Kaka, eat of this myrobalan fruit and take some water.'
28. Then the slave Kâka thought: 'This physician eats the myrobalan and drinks the water; there cannot be any harm in it;' so he ate half of the myrobalan and drank some water. And that half myrobalan which (Givaka) had given him to eat, opened his bowels on the spot.
Then the slave Kaka said to Givaka Komârabhakka : 'Can my life be saved, doctor ?'
(Glvaka replied), 'Be not afraid, my good Kaka, you will be quite well. But the king is cruel; that king might have me killed ; therefore do I not return.'
Speaking thus he handed over to Kaka the sheelephant Bhaddavatika and set out for Râgagaha. Having reached Râgagaha in due course, he went to
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