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 10
1. Now at that time the Bhikkhus who were sick had need of sifted[1] chunam as medicine.
They told this thing to the Blessed One.
'I allow, O Bhikkhus, the use of a chunam sieve.'
They had need of the chunam very fine.
'I allow, O Bhikkhus, the use of a cloth sieve.'
2. Now at that time a certain Bhikkhu had a disease not human. Though his teacher and his superior nursed him, they were not able to make him well. He went to a place where swine were slaughtered, and ate the raw flesh, and drank the blood. Thereby his sickness abated.
They told this thing to the Blessed One.
'I allow, O Bhikkhus, in the case of a disease not human, the use of raw flesh and of blood.'
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
Cāleti has often a more definite meaning than 'shake.' Compare Jātaka I, 71.