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, 31.
THE DRESS OF THE BHIKKHUS.
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Arahat-Buddha, or the Magadha king Seniya Bimbisâra.'
30. At that time a disturbance had befallen the humors of the Blessed One's body. And the Blessed One said to the venerable Ananda : 'A disturbance, Ånanda, has befallen the humors of the Tathagata's body; the Tathagata wishes to take a purgative.' Then the venerable Ânanda went to the place where Givaka Komârabhakka was; having approached him he said to Glvaka Komârabhakka :
'My good Givaka, a disturbance has befallen the humors of the Tathagata's body; the Tathagata wishes to take a purgative.'
(Givaka replied), "Well, venerable Ånanda, you ought to rub the Blessed One's body with fat for a few days.
And the venerable Ånanda, having rubbed the Blessed One's body with fat for some days, went to the place where Givaka Komârabhakka was; having approached him he said to Givaka Komârabhakka : *I have rubbed, my good Givaka, the Tathâgata's body with fat; do you now what you think fit.'
31. Then Glvaka Komârabhakka thought : 'It is not becoming that I should give a strong purgative to the Blessed One.' (Thinking thus), he imbued three handfuls of blue lotuses with various drugs and went therewith to the place where the Blessed One was; having approached him he offered one handful of lotuses to the Blessed One (saying), • Lord, may the Blessed One smell this first handful of lotuses; that will purge the Blessed One ten times.' Thus he offered also the second handful of lotuses to the Blessed One (saying), 'Lord, may the Blessed One smell this second handful of lotuses;
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