{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe17/sbe17034.htm","path":"bud/sbe17/sbe17034.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe17/sbe17034.htm","text":"1. Nov the Blessed One having remained at R\u00e2gagaha as long as he thought fit, proceeded on his way to S\u00e2vatthi. And wandering straight on from place to place he arrived at S\u00e2vatthi. And there, at S\u00e2vatthi, the Blessed One stayed at the Getavana, An\u00e2tha-pindika's Grove.\nNow at that time the venerable S\u00e2riputta suffered from fever. And the venerable Mah\u00e2 Moggall\u00e2na went to the place where the venerable S\u00e2riputta was; and when he had come there he said to the venerable S\u00e2riputta:\nYou have lately had fever, friend S\u00e2riputta. By what means has it got well?'\n'By lotus stalks, my friend, of various kinds.'\nThen the venerable Mah\u00e2 Moggall\u00e2na, as quickly as a strong man would stretch forth his arm, or draw it in again when it had been stretched forth, vanished from the Getavana and appeared on the bank of the Mand\u00e2kin\u00ee lake.\n2. And a certain N\u00e2ga saw the venerable Mah\u00e2\n[paragraph continues] Moggall\u00e2na coming from afar: and on seeing him he said to the venerable Mah\u00e2 Moggall\u00e2na:\n'May my lord, the venerable Mah\u00e2 Moggall\u00e2na, approach. Welcome to my lord, the venerable Mah\u00e2 Moggall\u00e2na. What may my lord have need of? What shall I give to him?'\n'I want the edible stalks of the various lotuses.'\nThen that N\u00e2ga gave command to another N\u00e2ga, saying, 'Very well then, good friend, give the venerable one edible stalks of the lotuses.'\nAnd that N\u00e2ga plunged into the Mand\u00e2kin\u00ee lake, and plucked with his trunk edible stalks of the lotuses, and washed them thoroughly, and bound them in a bundle, and went to the place where the venerable Mah\u00e2 Moggall\u00e2na was.\n3. Then the venerable Mah\u00e2 Moggall\u00e2na as quickly (&c., as in \u00a7 1) vanished from the bank of the Mand\u00e2kin\u00ee lake, and appeared in Getavana. Then that N\u00e2ga also vanished from the bank of the Mand\u00e2kin\u00ee lake, and appeared in the Getavana. And when that N\u00e2ga had caused the venerable Mah\u00e2 Moggall\u00e2na to receive those edible stalks of the lotuses he vanished from the Getavana, and appeared on the shore of the Mand\u00e2kin\u00ee lake.\nThen the venerable Mah\u00e2 Moggall\u00e2na presented those edible stalks of the lotuses to the venerable S\u00e2riputta. And the fever abated on the venerable S\u00e2riputta when he had eaten the edible stalks of the lotuses. And many of them remained over.\n4. Now at that time, during the scarcity (&c., as above, in chap. 18. 4, down to:) did not accept the invitation.\n'Accept it, O Bhikkhus, and eat. I allow a Bhikkhu who has eaten, and has refused food still\noffered, to eat things growing in woods and ponds even if they are not the leavings of the meal of one who has eaten 1.'\n78:1 See the note above, on VI, 18, 4.","title":"SBE 17: Sixth Khandhaka: Chapter 20","type":"page"}