[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Literature, language and dating](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature) › [A History of Indian Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927) › v2.c19.s2.42 # A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s2.42 A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s2.42 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.s2.42](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s2.42) When Jīvaka is grown up, he goes as apprentice to a famous doctor in Takkasilā (Taxila). After a seven years' course of instruction he passes his "examination." This consists of his teacher's giving him a spade and commissioning him to bring him all the plants from the environs of Takkasilā which cannot be used as herbs of healing. Jīvaka comes back, and declares that far and wide he did not find one such plant. With this the teacher is satisfied, gives him some money for his journey, and lets him depart. - [Previous: v2.c19.s2.41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s2.41) - [Next: v2.c19.s2.43](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s2.43) - [Up: v2.c19.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s2.42](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s2.42) · Pramāṇa