Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c9.s18.8

c9.s18.8

Further, the question arose as to what a monk should do if he was offered bony flesh or bony fish. Under such circumstances, it is stated that he should try to avoid bones and should ask for flesh. But if inspite of his request, the giver threw bony flesh in his pot, he must retire to a solitary place and keeping aside the bones and the thorns, should swallow the rest.⁵⁶ Here again, the commentator explains that *majja* and *māṃsa* may be accepted as a cure for *lūtā* (a kind of cutaneous disease) etc. at the instance of a good physician.⁵⁷