[1] Kah-gyur, vol. iii. pp. 50*–67*. Spence Hardy has given in his “Manual of Buddhism,” pp. 237–249, a portion of Jīvaka’s wonderful cures, and also some varying accounts of his origin.—S. [↑]
[2] For an account of the origin and history of these nobles, see Spence Hardy’s “Manual,” p. 235. [↑]
[3] Properly a house with a belvedere or small tower.—S. [↑]
[4] A few lines have been omitted here. [↑]
[5] Literally “having lizard-arrow-spokes” [Eidechsen-Pfeil-Speichen]. There is perhaps a connection between godhana, a kind of arrow with a broad point, and godhā, “an iguana, a very large sort of lizard” (Childers, p. 149).—S. [↑]
[6] Or Jīvakakumārabhṛtya, the first form in Burnouf, “Lotus de la Bonne Loi,” 449, the second in Childers sub voc. Komārabhacco. See Böhtlingk-Roth under Kumārabhṛtya, a branch of the medical art [“care of a young child, care of a pregnant or lying-in woman, midwifery.”—Monier Williams.] Both names are personifications of the healing art. See also Hardy, “Manual of Buddhism,” p. 238.—S. [↑]
[7] See Böhtlingk-Roth under gulma [“any glandular enlargement in the abdomen, as that of the mesenteric gland, &c., so as to be seen externally,” &c.—Monier Williams.]—S. [↑]
[8] Kodrava, “a species of grain eaten by the poor, Paspalum Scrobiculatum.” [↑]