Vinaya (2): The Mahavagga
by T. W. Rhys Davids | 1881 | 156,382 words
The Mahavagga (part of the Vinaya collection) includes accounts of Gautama Buddha’s and the ten principal disciples’ awakenings, as well as rules for ordination, rules for reciting the Patimokkha during uposatha days, and various monastic procedures....
Mahavagga, Khandaka 6, Chapter 8
1. Now at that time the Bhikkhus who were sick had need of various kinds of salt[1] as medicine. They told this thing to the Blessed One.
'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, the use of salts as medicine—sea-salt[2], black salt[3], rock salt[4], kitchen salt[5], red salt[6], and whatsoever other salts are used in medicine (&c., as in chap. 4, down to:) is guilty of a dukkaṭa offence.'
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
On these salts compare Abhidhānappadīpikā, verse 461; Suśruta, vol. i, pp. 226, 227, of the edition by Madhusūdana Gupta; Wise, 'Hindu Medicine,' p. 117.
[2]:
Sāmuddikā ’ti samudda-tīre vālukā viya tiṭṭhati (B.).
[3]:
Kāḷa-loṇan ti pakati-loṇaṃ (B.).
[4]:
Sindhavan ti seta-vaṇṇaṃ: pabbate uṭṭhahati (B.). It was probably called Sindh salt because it was found there, though, like Sindhava horses, it is always supposed to be white.
[5]:
Ubbhidā ’ti bhummito aṅkuyaṃ (sic) uṭṭhahati (B.).
[6]:
Bilan ti dabba-sambhārehi saddhiṃ pacitaṃ: taṃ ratta-vaṇṇaṃ (B.). It is Sanskrit viḍa, Hindustāni biṭ laban, and the same as bilāla in the Abhidhānappadīpikā.