Fifth Khandhaka. Chapter 35
35.
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).'
p. 155
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.
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).'
p. 155
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.
