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Bimbisārarājavatthu: The Story of King Bimbisāra

Bimbisārarājavatthu

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Mv VIII 03 PTS: Mv VIII 1.14 | CS: vin.mv.08.03

Bimbisārarājavatthu

The Story of King Bimbisāra

by

Ven. Khematto Bhikkhu

2017-2018

Alternate translations/layout: Ven. Thanissaro | 'line by line' Pāḷi - English

- Namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammā-sambuddhassa -

(Mv.VIII.1.14) [131] Now at that time King Seniya Bimbisāra of Magadha was sick with a hemorrhoid. His cloth was stained with blood. His queens, seeing it, teased him: “His majesty is now having his first period. His majesty is menstruating. It won’t be long before his majesty gives birth.”

The king was embarrassed by that. So he said to Prince Abhaya, “I say, Abhaya, we are suffering from the sort of illness that our cloth is stained with blood. My queens, seeing it, tease me: ‘His majesty is now having his first period. His majesty is menstruating. It won’t be long before his majesty gives birth.’ Please find the sort of doctor who could treat me.”

“Your majesty, there is this doctor of ours, Jīvaka, who is young & talented. He will treat your majesty.”

“I say, Abhaya, in that case, command doctor Jīvaka. He will treat me.”

(Mv.VIII.1.15) So Prince Abhaya commanded Jīvaka Komārabhacca, “Go, Jīvaka, and treat the king.”

Responding, “As you say, your highness,” to Prince Abhaya, and taking some medicine with his fingernail, Jīvaka Komārabhacca went to King Seniya Bimbisāra of Magadha and, on arrival, said to him, “Let me see your illness, your majesty.”

And he dried up the king’s hemorrhoid with a single (application of) ointment.(Mv.VIII.1.14)/p>

Then King Seniya Bimbisāra — being cured, having ordered 500 of his women to dress up with all their jewelry and then to remove it and put it into a pile — said to Jīvaka Komārabhacca, “That, I say, Jīvaka — all the jewelry of the 500 women — is yours.”

“Enough, your majesty. May your majesty simply remember my service.”

“Very well then, Jīvaka, care for me, for the women in the palace, and for the Saṅgha of monks, headed by the Buddha.”

“As you say, your majesty,” Jīvaka Komārabhacca responded to King Seniya Bimbisāra of Magadha.

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2017 Ven. Khematto Bhikkhu

Edition: 2017-09-29.

Transcribed from a file generously provided by the translator via dhammatalks.org and edited to ZzE-style by sj.

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