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ON MEDICAMENTS.
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SIXTH KHANDHAKA.
(ON MEDICAMENTS.)
1.
1. At that time the Blessed One dwelt at Savatthi, in the Getavana, the park of Anâtha-pindika. And at that time Bhikkhus, attacked by the sickness of the hot season', threw up the rice-milk they had drunk, and the food they had eaten. And thereby they became lean, rough, ill-favoured, yellow and ever yellower, and the veins stood out on their limbs ?.
And the Blessed One saw those Bhikkhus thus lean, rough, ill-favoured, yellow and ever yellower, and with the veins standing out on their limbs. And on seeing it, he asked the venerable Ånanda : *How is it, Ananda, that the Bhikkhus are become now so lean, rough, &c.?'
'At this time, Lord, the Bhikkhus are attacked with the disease of the hot season; and they throw up the rice-milk they have drunk, and the food they have eaten. Thence is it that they are become lean, rough, ill-favoured, yellow and ever yellower, and that the veins stand out on their limbs.
2. Then there occurred to the mind of the
i Sáradikena âbâdhenâ 'ti sarada-kâle uppannena pittâbâdhena. Tasmim hi kâle vassodakena pi tementi, kaddamam pi maddanti, antarantara âtapo pi kharo hoti. Tena tesam pittam kollhabbhantara-gatam hoti (B.).
? Read in the text Dhamani-santata-gatta; and compare Lalita Vistara, P. 226, and Professor Weber's Bhagavati,' II, 289.
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