1. Now at that tune the Bhikkhus made water here and there in the rma, and the rma was defiled.
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to make water at one side (of the rma).'
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The rma became offensive......
[The rest of this chapter is scarcely translateable. It records in like manner the various sanitary difficulties which arose from the living together of a number of Bhikkhus. Each such difficulty is quite solemnly said to have been reported to the Blessed One, and he is said to have found a way out of it. The result of the whole is, that the building of privies is enjoined, and all the contrivances, such as seats, doors, steps, plastering, &c., already mentioned with respect to the bath-room, above, V, 14, are here repeated verbatim 1.]
Footnotes
154:1 There is a similar rule for the Bhikkhuns in the Bhikkhun-vibhaga, P"k"ittiya I. So also onions are mentioned among the things a "G"ain Bhikkhu may not accept (Ayraga Sutta Ii, 1, 8, 13).
154:2 It is gruel of various kinds that is prescribed for this malady in Mahvagga Vi, 16, 3-17, 2.
155:1 For some of the details, compare Mahvagga V, 8, 3, and Mahvagga I, 25, 19=\"K"ullavagga Viii, 1, 5, and "K"ullavagga VIII, 9 and 10.