[173] Summary (uddāna) [of the Cīvarakkhandhaka]:
A townsman of Rājagaha, having seen
the courtesan in Vesālī,
went again to Rājagaha
and reported it to the king.
The son of Sālavatī,
indeed the offspring of Abhaya —
"He lives," and so by the prince
he was reckoned as "Jīvaka."
For he, having gone to Takkasilā
and mastered [the healing art], a great physician,
cured a seven-year affliction
by treatment through the nose.
The king's affliction of fistula
he drew out with an ointment.
"Attend upon me and the women's quarters,
and upon the Buddha together with the Saṅgha."
And the merchant of Rājagaha;
the curing of a knot in the intestines;
Pajjota's grave disease
he cured with a draught of ghee.
And the reward — the Siveyya cloth;
he anointed with oil [the body] clogged [with humours];
by three handfuls of lotuses,
a purging of exactly thirty times.
When [the body] was restored to normal, he asked a boon,
and [the Blessed One] accepted the Siveyya cloth;
and robes as the gift of householders
the Tathāgata allowed.
In Rājagaha and in the countryside
much robe-cloth arose:
a cloak, and silk too,
a fleece coverlet, the half-Kāsika [blanket];
[cloths] high and low, and contentment;
those who did not wait and those who waited;
before, after, alike [at the same time],
and an agreement; and they took [robes] back;
a storeroom, and one unguarded,
and likewise they had [the keeper] removed;
[cloth] in abundance, and uproar;
how should one divide? how should one give?
with one's own share and an extra portion;
how should one give a [separate] portion?
[Dyeing] with cow-dung, and cold and hot [water];
[the dye] boiling over; they did not know [whether it was done];
taking [the pot] down; and a vessel;
in a basin and on the ground;
white ants; [robes] wear through in the middle;
on one side; and with stiffened [cloth];
rough; uncut; bound in strips [like paddy-fields];
he saw them laden up with bundles;
having made trial, the Sakyan Sage
allowed the three robes;
with another [set]; with an extra [robe];
[extra cloth] arose; and a hole;
[rain over] the four continents; she asked a boon:
to give rains-cloths,
[food] for incoming, departing, and sick [bhikkhus],
and for attendants [of the sick], and medicine,
and the constant [conjey], and bathing-cloths;
fine [food]; too small [a cloth];
thick scab-disease; the face[-cloth]; linen;
the complete [set]; determination (adhiṭṭhāna);
the smallest [size]; made heavy;
uneven at the corner; the thread frayed;
[the panels] give way, and [the cloth] does not suffice;
a supplementary patch, and many [robes];
in the Andha Grove; through unmindfulness;
one alone during the rains, and in the [dry] season;
the two brothers; in Rājagaha;
Upananda; again in two [residences];
a disturbance of the bowels; a sick one;
and both of them sick;
naked; kusa-grass; bark-fibre garments;
the wood-slat [garment]; the blanket of human hair,
and of horse-tail hair and owls' wings;
antelope hide; stalks of swallow-wort;
makaci-fibre cloth; and blue and yellow,
red, and with crimson,
black, that named mahāraṅga [and mahānāma];
likewise [robes] with borders uncut,
with long borders, flower borders, snake-hood borders;
jackets, tirīṭa head-dresses, and turbans;
when [a robe] has not yet arisen, he departs;
the Saṅgha is divided just then;
they give to a faction, on behalf of the Saṅgha;
the Venerable Revata sent [a robe];
taking on trust; determining;
and the eight key-terms (mātikā) for robes.
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Campeyyakkhandhaka [The Campā Chapter]
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.