Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c35.1462
Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c35.1462
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v2.c35.1462
Visavanta Jātaka (No. 69).—The Bodhisatta was once a snake-bite doctor, and, on one occasion, when a countryman had been bitten by a snake, the doctor ordered the snake to be brought and asked it to suck the poison out of the wound. This the snake refused to do even though threatened with death by the doctor.