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Adapted from the Translation by T. W. Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg
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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.' (chunam = limestone powder)
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.'
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