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VI, 2, 2.
ON MEDICAMENTS.
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ill-favoured, yellow and ever yellower, and with the veins standing out on their limbs.
And the Blessed One saw the Bhikkhus thus still more lean, &c. And when he saw it, he asked the venerable Ânanda: How is it, Ânanda, that the Bhikkhus are become now still more lean, &c.?'
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5. 'At present, Lord, these Bhikkhus, who use the five medicaments only at the right time, cannot digest foods which, though ordinary, are rough, much less greasy foods. Then they, attacked (&c., as in § 4, down to :) standing out on their limbs.'
Then the Blessed One on that occasion, having delivered a religious discourse, addressed the Bhikkhus, and said: 'I permit you, O Bhikkhus, not only to receive those five medicaments, but to use them both at the right time, and at other times.'
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1. Now at that time the Bhikkhus who were sick had need of fatty substances as medicine.
They told this thing to the Blessed One.
'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, the use of the fat of bears, of fish, of alligators, of swine, and of asses, if received at the right time, cooked at the right time, mixed at the right time, to be partaken of with oil.'
2. If the fat be received, O Bhikkhus, at the wrong time, cooked at the wrong time, and mixed at the wrong time, and then taken, the Bhikkhu is guilty of three dukkata offences.'
'If it be received, O Bhikkhus, at the right time, cooked at the wrong time, and mixed at the wrong
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