翻譯名義集 2.110

2.110

[Jīva]: Also written Jīvaka (Qiyu or Shibojia). Translated as "able to live," also as "still alive." He was the son of King Bimbisāra, a half-brother of Ajātaśatru, born of Āmrapālī. Coming forth from the womb, he was already holding a needle-case and medicine pouch. His mother detested this, immediately wrapped him in white clothes, and abandoned him in an alleyway. At that time, Prince Abhaya, seeing him from afar while riding in a carriage, asked about him. Someone answered: "This is an infant." He further asked whether it was dead or alive? The reply was: "Still alive (jīva)." The prince immediately ordered people to nurse and raise him, and later returned him to his mother. The Sifen lü says: "When Jīva first went to the kingdom of Takṣaśilā, with the clan name Ātreya and the style name Piṅgala, he studied the art of medicine for seven years. His master then gave him a basket and a tool for digging herbs, commanding him to search within one yojana in all directions of Takṣaśilā for any herbs that were not medicinal and bring them back. Jīva, following instructions, searched completely all around within one yojana of the kingdom. All the grasses and trees he saw, he analyzed completely, and there was not a single grass or tree that was not medicinal. The master said: 'You may now go; your medical art is accomplished. When I die, next shall come you.'" The Jīvaka Sūtra says: "The youth Jīvaka, in a large bundle of firewood belonging to a firewood seller, saw a piece of wood radiating a piercingly clear light, called the King of Medicine. Holding it against a sick person's body, it illumined and revealed all the illnesses within the body."