Sixth Khandhaka. Chapter 8
8.
1. Now at that time the Bhikkhus who were sick had need of various kinds of salt 5 as medicine. They told this thing to the Blessed One.
'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, the use of salts as
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medicine--sea-salt 1, black salt 2, rock salt 3, kitchen salt 4, red salt 5, and whatsoever other salts are used in medicine (&c., as in chap. 4, down to:) is guilty of a dukka"t"a offence.'
Footnotes
47:5 On these salts compare Abhidhnappadpik, verse 461; Su"s"ruta, vol. i, pp. 226, 227, of the edition by Madhusdana Gupta; Wise, 'Hindu Medicine,' p. 117.
48:1 Smuddik 'ti samudda-tre vluk viya ti"t"th"ati (b.).
48:2 K\"l"a-lo"n"an ti pakati-lo"n"a"m" (b.).
48:3 Sindhavan ti seta-va"n"n"a"m": pabbate u"t"th"ahati (B.). It was probably called Sindh salt because it was found there, though, like Sindhava horses, it is always supposed to be white.
48:4 Ubbhid 'ti bhummito akuya"m" (sic) u"t"th"ahati (b.).
48:5 Bilan ti dabba-sambhrehi saddhi"m" pa"k"ita"m": ta"m" ratta-va"n"n"a"m" (B.). It is Sanskrit vi"d"a, Hindustni bi"t" laban, and the same as billa in the Abhidhnappadpik.
1. Now at that time the Bhikkhus who were sick had need of various kinds of salt 5 as medicine. They told this thing to the Blessed One.
'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, the use of salts as
p. 48
medicine--sea-salt 1, black salt 2, rock salt 3, kitchen salt 4, red salt 5, and whatsoever other salts are used in medicine (&c., as in chap. 4, down to:) is guilty of a dukka"t"a offence.'
Footnotes
47:5 On these salts compare Abhidhnappadpik, verse 461; Su"s"ruta, vol. i, pp. 226, 227, of the edition by Madhusdana Gupta; Wise, 'Hindu Medicine,' p. 117.
48:1 Smuddik 'ti samudda-tre vluk viya ti"t"th"ati (b.).
48:2 K\"l"a-lo"n"an ti pakati-lo"n"a"m" (b.).
48:3 Sindhavan ti seta-va"n"n"a"m": pabbate u"t"th"ahati (B.). It was probably called Sindh salt because it was found there, though, like Sindhava horses, it is always supposed to be white.
48:4 Ubbhid 'ti bhummito akuya"m" (sic) u"t"th"ahati (b.).
48:5 Bilan ti dabba-sambhrehi saddhi"m" pa"k"ita"m": ta"m" ratta-va"n"n"a"m" (B.). It is Sanskrit vi"d"a, Hindustni bi"t" laban, and the same as billa in the Abhidhnappadpik.
