Chapter 10

10.

1. Now at that time the Bhikkhus who were sick had need of sifted ⁴ 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

49:4 Kâleti has often a more definite meaning than 'shake.' Compare Gâtaka I, 71.