Mahavogga 6.10

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Adapted from the Translation by T. W. Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg

MAHAVAGGA SIXTH KHANDHAKA(ON MEDICAMENTS) Chapter-10.

1. Now at that time the Bhikkhus who were sick had need of sifted chunam as medicine.

They told this thing to the Lord Buddha.

'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. By that his sickness abated.

They told this thing to the Lord Buddha.

'I allow, O Bhikkhus, in the case of a disease not human, the use of raw flesh and of blood.'