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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-2
1. Now at that time the Bhikkhus(Monks) who were sick had need of fatty substances as medicine.They told this thing to the Lord Buddha.
'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, the use of the fat of bears, of fish, of alligators, of swine, and of asses, if received at the right time, cooked at the right time, mixed at the right time, to be partaken of with oil.'
2. 'If the fat be received, O Bhikkhus, at the wrong time, cooked at the wrong time, and mixed at the wrong time, and then taken, the Bhikkhu(Monk) is guilty of three dukkata offences. '
'If it be received, O Bhikkhus, at the right time, cooked at the wrong time, and mixed at the wrong time, and then taken, the Bhikkhu is guilty of two dukkata offences.'
'If it be received, O Bhikkhus, at the right time, cooked at the right time, and mixed at the wrong time, and then taken, the Bhikkhu is guilty of a dukkata offence.'
'If it be received, O Bhikkhus, at the right time, cooked at the right time, and mixed at the right time, and then taken, the Bhikkhu is not guilty.'
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