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1The latter seems VIII, 1,22, THE DRESS OF THE BHIKKHUS. 185 intestines, in consequence of which he could digest _ neither the rice-milk which he drank, nor the food of which he partook, nor was he able to ease himself in the regular way. In consequence of that he grew lean, he looked disfigured and discoloured, (his complexion became) more and more yellow, and the veins stood out upon his skin. Now the se¢/Ai of Benares thought: ‘My son is suffering from such and such a disease: he neither can digest the rice-milk which he drinks (&c., as above, down to:) and the veins stand out upon his skin. What if I were to go to Ragagaha and to ask the king for his physician Gtvaka to cure my son.’ And the se¢¢hi of Benares went to Ragagaha and repaired to the place where the Magadha king Seniya Bimbisdra was; having approached him he said to the Magadha king Seniya Bimbisara: ‘My son, Your Majesty, is suffering from such and such a disease: he neither can digest the rice-milk which he drinks (&c., as above, down to:) and the veins stand out upon his skin. May it please Your Majesty to order the physician Givaka to cure my son.’ 22. Then the Magadha king Seniya Bimbisdra gave orders to Gtvaka Komarabhaééa (saying), ‘Go, my dear Givaka; go to Benares, and cure the se/¢hi’s son at Benares.’ Gtvaka Komarabhaééa accepted this order of the Magadha king Seniya Bimbis4ra (by saying), ‘ Yes, Your Majesty, went to Benares, and repaired to the place where the son of the Benares setthi was; having approached him, and having carefully more in accordance with the phrase ‘holding a stick in the air’ (ak4se dandam gahetv4) and with the phrase ‘turning over and over’ (samparivas//anam). 186 MAHAVAGGA. VII, 1, 23. observed the change in his appearance, he ordered the people to leave the room, drew the curtain, tied him fast to a pillar, placed his wife in front of him, cut through the skin of the belly, drew the twisted intestines out, and showed them to his wife (saying), ‘Look here what the disease was, from which your husband was suffering. This is the reason why he neither can digest the rice-milk which he drinks, nor can digest the food of which he partakes, nor is able to ease himself in the regular way, and why he has grown lean, and looks disfigured and discoloured, and (why his complexion has become) more and more yellow, and the veins have stood out upon his skin.’ (Speaking thus), he disentangled the twisted intestines, put the intestines back (into their right position), stitched the skin together, and anointed it with salve. And before long the Benares seé¢hi’s son regained his health. Then the seé¢fhi of Benares (saying to himself), ‘My son stands here restored to health,’ gave sixteen thousand (kah4pavas) to Givaka Komarabhaééa. And Gtvaka Komérabhaééa took those sixteen thousand (kah4pazas), and went back again to Ragagaha.
2Then the seé¢fhi of Benares (saying to himself), ‘My son stands here restored to health,’ gave sixteen thousand (kah4pavas) to Givaka Komarabhaééa. And Gtvaka Komérabhaééa took those sixteen thousand (kah4pazas), and went back again to Ragagaha. 23. At that time king Paggota (of Uggent) was suffering from jaundice. Many very great and world-renowned physicians came and were not able to restore him to health; they received much gold and went away. Then king Paggota sent a messenger to the Magadha king Seniya Bimbisdra (with the following message): ‘I am suffering from such and such a disease ; pray, Your Majesty}, give 1 This passage in which king Paggota is represented as addressing king Bimbis&ra by the respectful expression ‘deva’ may in our VIII, 1,24. THE DRESS OF THE BHIKKHUS, 187 orders to the physician Gtvaka; he will cure me.’ Then the Magadha king Seniya Bimbiséra gave orders to Givaka Komérabhaféa (saying), ‘Go, my dear Gtvaka; go to Uggeni, and cure king Paggota.’ Givaka Komérabhaééa accepted this order of the Magadha king Seniya Bimbis4ra (by saying), ‘ Yes, Your Majesty,’ went to Uggent and to the place where king Paggota was, and having approached him, and having carefully observed the change in his appearance, he said to king Paggota: 24. ‘I will boil up some ghee, Sire, which Your Majesty must drink.’ ‘Nay, my good Gtvaka; do what you can for restoring me without giving me ghee; I have an aversion and a distaste for ghee.’ Then Gtvaka Komérabhaé&a thought: ‘ The disease of this king is such a one that it cannot be cured without ghee. What if I were to boil up ghee so that it takes the colour, the smell, and the taste of an astringent decoction.’ Then Givaka Komérabhaééa boiled some ghee with various drugs so as to give it the colour, the smell, and the taste of an astringent decoction. And Givaka Komérabhaééa thought: ‘When this king shall have taken the butter and digested it, it will make him vomit. This king is cruel; he might have me killed. What if I were to take leave before- opinion be brought forward against Professor Jacobi’s conjecture (Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morg. Gesellschaft, vol. xxxiv, p. 188) that Bimbiséra was merely a feudal chief under the supreme rule of king Paggota. The Pi/aka texts are always very exact in the selection of the terms of respect in which the different persons address each other. 1 See, about the decoctions used in medicine, VI, 4. 188 MAHAVAGGA. VHT, 1, 25. hand.” And Givaka Komérabhaééa went to the place where king Paggota was; having approached him he said to king Paggota: 25. ‘We physicians, Sire, draw out roots and gather medical drugs at such an hour as this. May it please Your Majesty to send the following order to the (royal) stables, and to the gates (of the town): “ Let Givaka ride out on what animal he likes; let him leave (the town) by what gate he likes; let him leave at what hour he likes; let him enter again at what hour he likes.”
3May it please Your Majesty to send the following order to the (royal) stables, and to the gates (of the town): “ Let Givaka ride out on what animal he likes; let him leave (the town) by what gate he likes; let him leave at what hour he likes; let him enter again at what hour he likes.” And king Paggota sent the following order to the (royal) stables and to the gates (of the town): ‘Let Givaka ride out on what animal he likes, &c.’ At that time king Paggota had a she-elephant, called Bhaddavatik4, which could travel fifty yoganas (in one day). And Gtvaka Komérabhaééa gave the ghee to king Paggota (saying), ‘May Your Majesty drink this decoction. Then, having made king Paggota drink the ghee, Givaka Kom4rabhaséa went to the elephant stable, and hasted away from the town on the she-elephant Bhaddavatika. 26. And when king Paggota had drunk that ghee and was digesting it, it made him vomit. Then king Paggota. said to his attendants: ‘ That wicked Givaka, my good Sirs, has given me ghee to drink. Go, my good Sirs, and seek the physician Gtvaka.’ (The attendants answered), ‘He has run away from the town on the she-elephant Bhaddavatika.’ At that time king Paggota had a slave, Kaka by name, who could travel sixty yoganas (in one day), who had been begotten by a non-human being. To this slave Kaka, king Paggota gave the order: ‘Go, my good Kaka, and call the physician Givaka back VII, 1,28. THE DRESS OF THE BHIKKHUS. 189 (saying), ‘The king orders you to return, doctor.” But those. physicians, my good Kaka, are cunning people ; do not accept anything from him.’ 27. And the slave Kaka overtook Givaka Komérabhaééa on his way, at Kosambt, when he was taking his breakfast. And the slave Kaka said to Givaka Komérabhaééa: ‘The king orders you to return, doctor.’ (Gtvaka replied), ‘Wait, my good K4ka, until we have taken our meal; here, my good K4ka, eat.’ (K4ka said), ‘Nay, doctor, the king has told me, “Those physicians, my good K4ka, are cunning people; do not accept anything from him.”’ At that time Givaka Komérabhassa, who had cut off some drug with his nail, was eating an emblic myrobalan fruit and drinking water. And Givaka Koméarabhaééa said to the slave Kaka: ‘ Here, my good K4ka, eat of this myrobalan fruit and take some water.’ 28. Then the slave Kaka thought: ‘ This physician eats the myrobalan and drinks the water; there cannot be any harm in it;’ so he ate half of the myrobalan and drank some water. And that half myrobalan which (Givaka) had given him to eat, opened his bowels on the spot. Then the slave K4ka said to Givaka Komérabhafsa: ‘Can my life be saved, doctor ?’ (Gtvaka replied), ‘Be not afraid, my good Kaka, you will be quite well. But the king is cruel; that king might have me killed; therefore do I not return.’ Speaking thus he handed over to K4ka the sheelephant Bhaddavatiké and set out for Ragagaha. Having reached R4gagaha in due course, he went to 190 MAHAVAGGA. VIN, 1, 29.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1The latter seems VIII, 1,22, THE DRESS OF THE BHIKKHUS. 185 intestines, in consequence of which he could digest _ neither the rice-milk which he drank, nor the food of which he partook, nor was he able to ease himself in the regular way. In consequence of that he grew lean, he looked disfigured and discoloured, (his complexion became) more and more yellow, and the veins stood out upon his skin. Now the se¢/Ai of Benares thought: ‘My son is suffering from such and such a disease: he neither can digest the rice-milk which he drinks (&c., as above, down to:) and the veins stand out upon his skin. What if I were to go to Ragagaha and to ask the king for his physician Gtvaka to cure my son.’ And the se¢¢hi of Benares went to Ragagaha and repaired to the place where the Magadha king Seniya Bimbisdra was; having approached him he said to the Magadha king Seniya Bimbisara: ‘My son, Your Majesty, is suffering from such and such a disease: he neither can digest the rice-milk which he drinks (&c., as above, down to:) and the veins stand out upon his skin. May it please Your Majesty to order the physician Givaka to cure my son.’ 22. Then the Magadha king Seniya Bimbisdra gave orders to Gtvaka Komarabhaééa (saying), ‘Go, my dear Givaka; go to Benares, and cure the se/¢hi’s son at Benares.’ Gtvaka Komarabhaééa accepted this order of the Magadha king Seniya Bimbis4ra (by saying), ‘ Yes, Your Majesty, went to Benares, and repaired to the place where the son of the Benares setthi was; having approached him, and having carefully more in accordance with the phrase ‘holding a stick in the air’ (ak4se dandam gahetv4) and with the phrase ‘turning over and over’ (samparivas//anam). 186 MAHAVAGGA. VII, 1, 23. observed the change in his appearance, he ordered the people to leave the room, drew the curtain, tied him fast to a pillar, placed his wife in front of him, cut through the skin of the belly, drew the twisted intestines out, and showed them to his wife (saying), ‘Look here what the disease was, from which your husband was suffering. This is the reason why he neither can digest the rice-milk which he drinks, nor can digest the food of which he partakes, nor is able to ease himself in the regular way, and why he has grown lean, and looks disfigured and discoloured, and (why his complexion has become) more and more yellow, and the veins have stood out upon his skin.’ (Speaking thus), he disentangled the twisted intestines, put the intestines back (into their right position), stitched the skin together, and anointed it with salve. And before long the Benares seé¢hi’s son regained his health. Then the seé¢fhi of Benares (saying to himself), ‘My son stands here restored to health,’ gave sixteen thousand (kah4pavas) to Givaka Komarabhaééa. And Gtvaka Komérabhaééa took those sixteen thousand (kah4pazas), and went back again to Ragagaha.
2Then the seé¢fhi of Benares (saying to himself), ‘My son stands here restored to health,’ gave sixteen thousand (kah4pavas) to Givaka Komarabhaééa. And Gtvaka Komérabhaééa took those sixteen thousand (kah4pazas), and went back again to Ragagaha. 23. At that time king Paggota (of Uggent) was suffering from jaundice. Many very great and world-renowned physicians came and were not able to restore him to health; they received much gold and went away. Then king Paggota sent a messenger to the Magadha king Seniya Bimbisdra (with the following message): ‘I am suffering from such and such a disease ; pray, Your Majesty}, give 1 This passage in which king Paggota is represented as addressing king Bimbis&ra by the respectful expression ‘deva’ may in our VIII, 1,24. THE DRESS OF THE BHIKKHUS, 187 orders to the physician Gtvaka; he will cure me.’ Then the Magadha king Seniya Bimbiséra gave orders to Givaka Komérabhaféa (saying), ‘Go, my dear Gtvaka; go to Uggeni, and cure king Paggota.’ Givaka Komérabhaééa accepted this order of the Magadha king Seniya Bimbis4ra (by saying), ‘ Yes, Your Majesty,’ went to Uggent and to the place where king Paggota was, and having approached him, and having carefully observed the change in his appearance, he said to king Paggota: 24. ‘I will boil up some ghee, Sire, which Your Majesty must drink.’ ‘Nay, my good Gtvaka; do what you can for restoring me without giving me ghee; I have an aversion and a distaste for ghee.’ Then Gtvaka Komérabhaé&a thought: ‘ The disease of this king is such a one that it cannot be cured without ghee. What if I were to boil up ghee so that it takes the colour, the smell, and the taste of an astringent decoction.’ Then Givaka Komérabhaééa boiled some ghee with various drugs so as to give it the colour, the smell, and the taste of an astringent decoction. And Givaka Komérabhaééa thought: ‘When this king shall have taken the butter and digested it, it will make him vomit. This king is cruel; he might have me killed. What if I were to take leave before- opinion be brought forward against Professor Jacobi’s conjecture (Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morg. Gesellschaft, vol. xxxiv, p. 188) that Bimbiséra was merely a feudal chief under the supreme rule of king Paggota. The Pi/aka texts are always very exact in the selection of the terms of respect in which the different persons address each other. 1 See, about the decoctions used in medicine, VI, 4. 188 MAHAVAGGA. VHT, 1, 25. hand.” And Givaka Komérabhaééa went to the place where king Paggota was; having approached him he said to king Paggota: 25. ‘We physicians, Sire, draw out roots and gather medical drugs at such an hour as this. May it please Your Majesty to send the following order to the (royal) stables, and to the gates (of the town): “ Let Givaka ride out on what animal he likes; let him leave (the town) by what gate he likes; let him leave at what hour he likes; let him enter again at what hour he likes.”
3May it please Your Majesty to send the following order to the (royal) stables, and to the gates (of the town): “ Let Givaka ride out on what animal he likes; let him leave (the town) by what gate he likes; let him leave at what hour he likes; let him enter again at what hour he likes.” And king Paggota sent the following order to the (royal) stables and to the gates (of the town): ‘Let Givaka ride out on what animal he likes, &c.’ At that time king Paggota had a she-elephant, called Bhaddavatik4, which could travel fifty yoganas (in one day). And Gtvaka Komérabhaééa gave the ghee to king Paggota (saying), ‘May Your Majesty drink this decoction. Then, having made king Paggota drink the ghee, Givaka Kom4rabhaséa went to the elephant stable, and hasted away from the town on the she-elephant Bhaddavatika. 26. And when king Paggota had drunk that ghee and was digesting it, it made him vomit. Then king Paggota. said to his attendants: ‘ That wicked Givaka, my good Sirs, has given me ghee to drink. Go, my good Sirs, and seek the physician Gtvaka.’ (The attendants answered), ‘He has run away from the town on the she-elephant Bhaddavatika.’ At that time king Paggota had a slave, Kaka by name, who could travel sixty yoganas (in one day), who had been begotten by a non-human being. To this slave Kaka, king Paggota gave the order: ‘Go, my good Kaka, and call the physician Givaka back VII, 1,28. THE DRESS OF THE BHIKKHUS. 189 (saying), ‘The king orders you to return, doctor.” But those. physicians, my good Kaka, are cunning people ; do not accept anything from him.’ 27. And the slave Kaka overtook Givaka Komérabhaééa on his way, at Kosambt, when he was taking his breakfast. And the slave Kaka said to Givaka Komérabhaééa: ‘The king orders you to return, doctor.’ (Gtvaka replied), ‘Wait, my good K4ka, until we have taken our meal; here, my good K4ka, eat.’ (K4ka said), ‘Nay, doctor, the king has told me, “Those physicians, my good K4ka, are cunning people; do not accept anything from him.”’ At that time Givaka Komérabhassa, who had cut off some drug with his nail, was eating an emblic myrobalan fruit and drinking water. And Givaka Koméarabhaééa said to the slave Kaka: ‘ Here, my good K4ka, eat of this myrobalan fruit and take some water.’ 28. Then the slave Kaka thought: ‘ This physician eats the myrobalan and drinks the water; there cannot be any harm in it;’ so he ate half of the myrobalan and drank some water. And that half myrobalan which (Givaka) had given him to eat, opened his bowels on the spot. Then the slave K4ka said to Givaka Komérabhafsa: ‘Can my life be saved, doctor ?’ (Gtvaka replied), ‘Be not afraid, my good Kaka, you will be quite well. But the king is cruel; that king might have me killed; therefore do I not return.’ Speaking thus he handed over to K4ka the sheelephant Bhaddavatiké and set out for Ragagaha. Having reached R4gagaha in due course, he went to 190 MAHAVAGGA. VIN, 1, 29.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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