[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Dictionary of Pali Proper Names](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937) › v1.c18.434 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c18.434 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c18.434 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c18.434](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c18.434) 1. Jivaka-Komārabhacca.—A celebrated physician. He was the son of Sālavatī, a courtesan of Rājagaha.¹ Directly after birth the child was placed in a basket and thrown on a dust-heap, from where he was rescued by Abhayarājakumāra. When questioned by Abhaya, people said "he was alive" (jīvati), and therefore the child was called Jīvaka; because he was brought up by the prince (kumārena posāpito), he was called Komārabhacca.² When grown up, he learnt of his antecedents, and going to Takkasilā without Abhaya's knowledge, studied medicine for seven years. His teacher then gave him a little money and sent him away as being fit to practise medicine. His first patient was the seṭṭhi's wife at Sāketa, and for curing her he received sixteen thousand kahāpaṇas, a manservant, a maid-servant and a coach with horses. When he returned to Rājagaha, Abhaya established him in his own residence. There he cured Bimbisāra of a troublesome fistula and received as reward all the ornaments of Bimbisāra's five hundred wives. He was appointed physician to the king and the king's women and also to the fraternity of monks with the Buddha at its head. Other cures of Jīvaka's included that of the seṭṭhi of Rājagaha on whom he performed the operation of trepanning, and of the son of the seṭṭhi of Benares who had suffered from chronic intestinal trouble due to misplacement, and for this case Jīvaka received sixteen thousand kahāpaṇas. - [Previous: v1.c18.433](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c18.433) - [Next: v1.c18.435](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c18.435) - [Up: v1.c18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c18) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c18.434](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c18.434) · Pramāṇa