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Asāvatī

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Une liane du bosquet Cittalatāvana de Tāvatiṃsa, dont le fruit, ne mûrissant qu’une fois tous les mille ans, produit une boisson divine qui enivre pendant quatre mois.

A creeper that grows in the Cittalatāvana in Tāvatiṃsa. In its fruit a divine drink is hidden, and they who drink of it once are intoxicated for four months and lie on a divine couch. It bears fruit only once in a thousand years, and the gods wait patiently for that period for a drink of the fruit. J.iii.250-1; Ap.i.41.

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