Nayadhamma Kahao

SR No.: 034981
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: N V Vaidya
Publisher: N V Vaidya
Total Pages: 174
Language: Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 15 MB

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overpowered (attracted) by the smell of that gourd-preparation dripping with ghee, took a drop on the palm of his hand and tasted it; (but) realising that it was very pungent, salty, bitter, not potable, not fit to be eaten, and turned into poison, he said to monk Dharnaruci as follows:- "If, O B., you eat this juicy gourd-preparation dripping with oil, then you will certainly lose your life betimes (or prematurely). Do not, therefore, O B., eat this gourd juice preparation, lest you will die a premature death. Go you, therefore, O B., and throw away this gourd juice in a solitary corner, not frequented by men, and which is free from living organisms, and getting another food, pure and free from living organisms (and acceptable), have your meal. Then that monk Dharmaruci, being . thus addressed by the Venerable Dharmaghoşa, went away from his presence, inspected a pure spot of ground near about the Subhūmibhāga park, and taking out a drop from that gourd-juice, he dropped (or placed) it on that pure ground. Then many thousands of ants appeared there (being attracted) by the smell of that gourd-juice, bitter and pungent, and dripping profusely with ghee; and every ant that ate of it, dropped down dead immediately on the spot. Then the monk Dbarmaruci thought as follows:- "If, when only a single drop of this gourd-juice...is dropped (on the ground) many thousands of ants have been deprived of their lives, then if I were to pour out the whole of it on the ground, then it will certainly be the cause of death for numerous living creatures. It is, therefore, meet for me to eat this gourd-juice... dripping with ghee, myself; let it disappear (vanish) only with my body;" having reflected thus, be inspected his mouth-strip wiped his head (or face), and the upper part of the body, and gulped down (poured) all that sour and bitter gourdjuice dripping with ghee, at a stretch in the store house of his body, after the manner of a snake entering a hole. Then, after that Dharmamaruci ate that gourd-preparation ... upto...dripping with ghee, after a while when it began to be assimilated (in the systein) there was a very severe and unbearable pain in his body. Then that monk Dharmaruci, realising that he was now without any vitality,