Vinaya Texts

SR No.: 007684
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: T W Rhys Davids, Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1881
Total Pages: 2523
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 47 MB

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MAHAVAGGA.
VIII, 26, 5.
saddhi-vihârika, or a fellow antevâsika1.
And
if he have neither of all these, then should the Samgha wait upon him; and whosoever does not do So, shall be guilty of a dukkata.
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5. There are five qualities, O Bhikkhus, which, when a sick man has, he is difficult to wait uponwhen he does not do what is good for him; when he does not know the limit (of the quantity of food) that is good for him; when he does not take his medicine; when he does not let a nurse who desires his good know what manner of disease he has, or when it is getting worse that that is so, or when it is getting better that that is so, or when it is stationary that that is so; and when he has become unable to bear bodily pains that are severe, sharp, grievous, disagreeable, unpleasant, and destructive to life. These are the five qualities, O Bhikkhus, which, when a sick man has, he is difficult to wait upon.
6. 'There are five qualities, O Bhikkhus, which, when a sick man has, he is easy to wait uponwhen he does' (&c., the contrary of the last section).
7. 'There are five qualities, O Bhikkhus, which, when one who waits upon the sick has, he is incompetent to the task-when he is not capable of prescribing medicines; when he does not know what (diet) is good and what is not good for the patient, serving what is not good, and not serving what is good for him; when he waits upon the sick out of
1 On all except the last two this duty has already been enjoined above in the passages on the mutual duties of masters and pupils (Mahâvagga I, 24, 25; I, 26, 11; I, 32, 3; I, 33, 1).
* Compare Gâtaka II, 293, 294.
This last clause occurs also above, at I, 49, 6.
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