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Chapter 35

35.

1. Now at that tune the Bhikkhus made water here and there in the Ârâma, and the Ârâma was defiled.

They told this matter to the Blessed One.

'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to make water at one side (of the Ârâma).'

p. 155

The Ârâma 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

  1. 154:1

    There is a similar rule for the Bhikkhunîs in the Bhikkhunî-vibhaṅga, Pâkittiya I. So also onions are mentioned among the things a Gain Bhikkhu may not accept (Ayâraṅga Sutta II, 1, 8, 13).

  2. 154:2

    It is gruel of various kinds that is prescribed for this malady in Mahâvagga VI, 16, 3-17, 2.

  3. 155:1

    For some of the details, compare Mahâvagga V, 8, 3, and Mahâvagga I, 25, 19=Kullavagga VIII, 1, 5, and Kullavagga VIII, 9 and 10.

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