Vinaya (3): The Cullavagga
by T. W. Rhys Davids | 1881 | 137,074 words
The Cullavagga (part of the Vinaya collection) includes accounts of the First and Second Buddhist Councils as well as the establishment of the community of Buddhist nuns. The Cullavagga also elaborates on the etiquette and duties of Bhikkhus....
Cullavagga, Khandaka 5, Chapter 35
1. Now at that tune the Bhikkhus made water here and there in the Ārāma, and the Ārāma was defiled.
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
'I allow you, O Bhikkhus, to make water at one side (of the Ārāma).' The Ārāma 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 and references:
[1]:
For some of the details, compare Mahāvagga V, 8, 3, and Mahāvagga I, 25, 19=Cullavagga VIII, 1, 5, and Cullavagga VIII, 9 and 10.