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[Snānāṣṭakam ]
dravyato bhāvataścaiva dvidhā snānamudāhṛtaṁ. bāhyamādhyatmikaṁ ceti tadanyaiḥ parikīrtyate. Bathing is described as two-fold external and internal, these are referred to as physical and spiritual by others (followers of the other systems ).
jalena dehadeśasya kṣaṇam yacchuddhikaraṇam. prāyo'nyanuparodhena dravyasnānaṁ taducyate.
Bathing with water is called the physical bathing. It is the cause of the momentary and partial purity of the body and mostly incapable of obstructing new impurity.
kṛtvedam yo vidhānena devatātithipūjanam. karoti malinārambhī tasyaitadapi śobhanam.
bhavaśuddhinimittatvättathanubhavasiddhitaḥ.
kathañcidoṣabhāve'pi tadanyaguṇabhāvataḥ.
This physical bath is auspicious also of that householder, who is partially engaged in impure activities, worships the deities and serves monks and nuns after ritually taking (physical) bath.
(Physical bath is auspicious) being the instrumental cause of the mental purity and established so by experience, though vitiated somehow, is bestowed with other virtues.
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