Chulavagga 5.35

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Adapted from the Translation by T. W. Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg

CHULAVAGGA (THE MINOR SECTION)

FIFTH KHANDHAKA (ON THE DAILY LIFE OF THE BHIKKHUS)

Chapter-35.

1. Now at that tune the Bhikkhus urinated here and there in the Arama, and the Arama was defiled.

They told this matter to the Lord Buddha.

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

The Arama 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 Lord Buddha, and he is said to have found a way out of it. The result of the whole is, that the building of privies is instructed, 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.]