Pali - Every few days - [B191]
Gair/Karunatillake - Chapter 10 � Further Readings
Ex. 3 (Part 1 of 1)

Atiite kir�eko vejjo vejjakammatthaaya gaama.m
vicaritvaa ki�ci kamma.m alabhitvaa chaatajjhatto
nikkhamitvaa gaamadvaare sambahule kumaarake kii.lante
disvaa �ime sappena .dasaapetvaa tikicchitvaa
aahaara.m labhissaamii�ti ekasmi.m rukkhabile siisa.m
niharitvaa nipanna.m sappa.m dassetvaa, �ambho,
kumaarakaa, eso saa.likapotako, ga.nhatha nan�ti aaha.
Ath�eko kumaarako sappa.m giivaaya.m da.lha.m gahetvaa
niiharitvaa tassa sappabhaava.m �atvaa viravanto
aviduure .thitassa vejjassa matthake khipi. Sappo
vejjassa khandha.t.thika.m parikkhipitvaa da.lha.m
.dasitvaa tatth�eva jiivitakkhaya.m paapesi.
It is said that once a doctor wandered in the village
practicing medicine, and not having received any work,
he departed hungry and saw many young boys playing at
the village gate. Thinking, �I will cause them to be
bitten by a snake, treat them and thus get food�, he
stretched his head into a tree hollow and found a
snake sleeping. �Hello, boys, here is a mynah bird,
pick it up�, he said. Then a certain young boy
grabbed the snake tightly by the neck, took it out,
and knowing its snake-nature, shouting, threw it onto
the head of the doctor standing nearby. The snake
coiled around the doctor�s back, bit him strongly, and
thus brought about the fall of his life-body.
(DhAk., Kokasunakhaluddakavatthu)