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VI, 14, 6.
ON MEDICAMENTS.
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The wound would not close up. 'I allow, O Bhikkhus, the use of oil for wounds.' The oil ran over. They told this thing to the Blessed One.
'I allow, O Bhikkhus, the use of fine rags !, and of all kinds of ways of treating wounds.'
6. Now at that time a certain Bhikkhu was bitten by a snake.
They told this thing to the Blessed One.
I allow, O Bhikkhus, the four kinds of filth to be given-dung, urine, ashes, and clay:
Now the Bhikkhus thought: 'Are these things among those which may be taken even without being offered to us by others, or among things which cannot be taken unless they are offered ?'
They told this thing to the Blessed One.
I allow these things, O Bhikkhus, to be accepted if any one be there to offer them, and if not, then that you may take them yourselves and use them.'
Now at that time a certain Bhikkhu had drunk poison.
I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to give (as an emetic) a decoction of dung.'
Then the Bhikkhus thought: 'Is this among those things which may be taken even without being offered to us by others, or is it among things which cannot be taken unless they are offered ?'
They told this thing to the Blessed One.
•I rule, O Bhikkhus, that there is a proper taking when a man takes what he himself has made; and
1 Vikasikan ti tela-ruddhana-pilotikam (B.). See VIII, 2.
' A kappiya-kâraka is one who by offering a thing to a Bhikkhu, makes that thing kappiya, allowable, to the Bhikkhu.
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| SR No. | 007684 |
| Book Title | Vinaya Texts |
| 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 |