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Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1

Note 19 — INTRODUCTION.

Robert Cæsar Childers translation

Literally ‘the great medicine.’ The Bodisat of that time received this name because he was born with a powerful drug in his hand,—an omen of the cleverness in device by which, when he grew up, he delivered people from their misfortunes. Compare my ‘Buddhism,’ p. 187.

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