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acrid taste, as that of the Ann a tree, Arura, Skyurura, and Parura. Kinds 

 of salt. Stories of particular diseases and maladies. What sort of medi- 

 cament was prescribed by the phj^sicians for each disease ; — how such 

 medicaments were permitted by Shakya to be used. Permission given by 

 Sharya to his disciples to keep always with them a certain quantity of 

 medicine (previously consecrated or blessed.) What gave occasion to that 

 leave. Medicaments to be used daily, at a certain period of the day, for 

 seven days, through one's whole life: — diet in meat and drink. Leaf 15, 

 medicament for the eye. The story of a madman. Stories of particular 

 meat or flesh having been used by the disciples of Shakya, in the time of 

 famine. Prohibitions against such practice. 



Leaf 19. Shakya enters from Kdshi into Vardnasi. The story of a 

 Tribune's (headman's) wife there — her piety and her former moral merits. 



Leaf 27. The king of Magadka (Shrenika Vimbasara) pays a visit 

 to Shakya in a grove near Raj agr ilia, and begs his acceptance of an 

 entertainment for three months with every thing necessary for him and 

 his train or suite. 



Leaf 30. The story of a priest suffering from hemorrhoids (piles) 

 Haughty and malignant behaviour of the king's physician to that person, 

 though he was sent by the king to cure him ;— he called Shakya also the 

 son of a female slave. His punishment. 



Leaf 33-34. Names of the six remarkable places or capitals in Cen- 

 tral India, as 1. Tib. Mnyan-yod, Sans. Shrdvasti. 2. Tib. Gnas-'Bchas, 

 Sans. Sdketdna. 3. Tib. and Sans. Vardnasi. 4. Tib. Yangs-pa-cJian, 

 Sans. Vaisliali. 5. Tib. and Sans. Champa. 6. Tib. 'Rgyal-pohi-k'hab, 

 Sans. Rdjagriha. 



Leaf 34-35. What sort of medicament was employed by Kun- 

 J)gah-vo (A'nanda) in curing Shakya in a disease. The story of 

 Gang-PC, leaf 40. 



Leaf 80 to 87. The king of i)lfrto'at?Afl[(Lus- jErp'HAGS-MAHi-BU-MA-<S'KYES- 

 Dgra) invites Shakya into Rdjagriha. With what solemnity he receives 



