Jīvaka (6640)

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Jīvaka
Entry 6640, Page 243, Col. 2
(jIvaka, jIvaka)
Jīvaka¦ (= Pali id.), n. of a physician and follower of Buddha (called in Pali Komārabhacca, in BHS Kumāra- bhṛta, °bhūta, qq.v.): Divy 270.12 ff.; 506.2 ff.; MSV ii.25.5 ff.; has epithet Vaidyarāja(n) KP 96.2, 3; Śikṣ 159.8, 12 (here, amazingly, Bendall and Rouse translate vaidyarāja as n. pr. and jīvaka as adj., when alive!). See also Jīvika.

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