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VI, 22, 3.
ON MEDICAMENTS.
was going round through the sleeping-places came to the place where that Bhikkhu dwelt.
2. Akâsa-gotta, the physician, saw the Blessed One coming from afar; and when he saw him he said to the Blessed One: 'Let the venerable Gotama come and look at this Bhikkhu's orifice; it is like the mouth of an iguana!' And the Blessed One thinking, 'This foolish fellow is making fun of me,' kept silence and turned away. And in that connection, and on account of that, he called a meeting of the Bhikkhu-samgha, and asked the Bhikkhus : 'Is there, O Bhikkhus, in that Vihåra a Bhikkhu who is sick ?' *There is, Lord.'
What is the matter, O Bhikkhus, with that Bhikkhu ?'
That venerable one, Lord, has a fistula, and Åkâsa-gotta, the physician, has been lancing it.'
3. The Blessed Buddha rebuked (that Bhikkhu), saying, “This is improper, O Bhikkhus, for that foolish one, unbecoming, indecent, unworthy of Samanas, not allowable, and ought not to be done. How can this foolish fellow, O Bhikkhus, allow a surgical operation to be performed in that part of his body? The skin there, O Bhikkhus, is tender, the wound is difficult to treat, the knife is difficult to guide. This will not redound, O Bhikkhus, to the conversion of the unconverted.'
And having rebuked him, the Blessed One, after delivering a religious discourse, said to the Bhikkhus : 'You are not, O Bhikkhus, to allow a surgical operation to be performed upon you in that part
Sambadhe.
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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 |