{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe20/sbe20050.htm","path":"bud/sbe20/sbe20050.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe20/sbe20050.htm","text":"1. Now at that tune the Bhikkhus made water here and there in the \u00c2r\u00e2ma, and the \u00c2r\u00e2ma was defiled.\nThey told this matter to the Blessed One.\n'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to make water at one side (of the \u00c2r\u00e2ma).'\nThe \u00c2r\u00e2ma became offensive. . . . . .\n[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.]\n154:1 There is a similar rule for the Bhikkhun\u00ees in the Bhikkhun\u00ee-vibha\u1e45ga, P\u00e2kittiya I. So also onions are mentioned among the things a Gain Bhikkhu may not accept (Ay\u00e2ra\u1e45ga Sutta II, 1, 8, 13).\n154:2 It is gruel of various kinds that is prescribed for this malady in Mah\u00e2vagga VI, 16, 3-17, 2.\n155:1 For some of the details, compare Mah\u00e2vagga V, 8, 3, and Mah\u00e2vagga I, 25, 19=Kullavagga VIII, 1, 5, and Kullavagga VIII, 9 and 10.","title":"SBE 20: Fifth Khandhaka: Chapter 35","type":"page"}