The Bower Manuscript 51

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VI. Fol. 1: Bower manuscript
Thus have I heard: at one time the Blessed One was dwelling in Śrāvastī, in the Jetavana, the monastery of Anāthapiṇḍada. At that time,
at that season in Śrāvastī, in the Jetavana, the monastery of Anāthapiṇḍada, there was living a monk named Svāti, new, youthful, young, / recently gone forth [into homelessness], recently arrived in this Dharma and Vinaya. While splitting wood for the steam bath for the sake of the Saṅgha, / having come out from among certain rotten logs, he was bitten on the right big toe by a large black snake. His body exhausted, he fell to the ground, / oozing foam and rolling his eyes. The venerable Ānanda saw the monk Svāti exceedingly sick, / throwing up foam, rolling his eyes, lying down; and having seen him, again swiftly, swiftly, where [the Blessed One was …] / "Lord, how am I to proceed in his case?" When this was said, the Blessed One said this to the venerable Ānanda: "Go, Ānanda, by the very word of the Tathāgata, / with this Mahāmāyūrī, queen of spells, make protection, safeguard, paritra, guardianship, preservation, pacification, / blessing, averting of the staff, neutralizing of poison, destroying of poison, binding of the boundary, and binding of the earth for the monk Svāti: from the seizure of devas, from the seizure of nāgas, / from the seizure of asuras, from the seizure of maruts, from the seizure of garuḍas, from the seizure of gandharvas, from the seizure of kinnaras, from the seizure of mahoragas, / from the seizure of yakṣas, from the seizure of rākṣasas, from the seizure of pretas, from the seizure of piśācas, from the seizure of bhūtas, from the seizure of kumbhāṇḍas, from the seizure of pūtanas, / from the seizure of kaṭapūtanas, from the seizure of skandhas, from the seizure of unsmādas, from the seizure of chāyās, from the seizure of apasmāras, from the seizure of ostārakas,"