In the R̥gveda, there is an account of Indra cleansing Apālā from a skin disease. For a discussion of this, see: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3827509/

Madhav M. Deshpande

Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies

[Residence: Campbell, California, USA]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 9:15 AM Rolf Heinrich Koch via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

Dear Listmembers,
the Sambulā-Jātaka (519) is illustrated at a monastery Sri Lanka. Sambulā takes care of her leprosy husband Sotthisena in the forest. A demon falls in love and tries to catch her but Śakra rescues her. The corresponding mural depicts Śakra as a terrible being holding a club in his hands. The Pali Jātaka provides no description of a disguised Śakra but in the Sinhalese Sambulā-Jātaka we can read, that Śakra saves Sambulā in the disguise of a terrible being (...Sakdevraja bhayānaka vēṣayak geṇa ...). I suppose this is recorded in a source of the Mūlasarvāstivāda-Vinaya tradition, written in Sanskrit or Tibetan.
Anyone of you came across a similar version of this story, where Śakra saves Sambulā in a terrible disguise?

Thank you

Heiner

Rolf Heinrich Koch
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