Cakkana untranslated

Cakkana. An upāsaka of Ceylon. While he was a boy, his mother once fell grievously ill and the doctors ordered her hare’s flesh. Cakkana was sent by his brother into the field, where he caught a hare which, however, out of compassion he set free. His brother blamed him, but Cakkana cured his mother by a saccakiriyā, saying that, inasmuch as he had never deprived anything of life, by the power of that truth his mother should recover (SN­a.ii.112; the story is slightly different in MN­a.i.165). Cakkana’s abstinence is one that was maintained “in spite of opportunity” (sampattivirati) and when he had not undertaken to observe any precept. Dhs­a., p. 103.