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## 66
## Dasha Shruta Skandha Sutra
## Third Dasha
If a student, along with a Ratnakara, goes out to the excretion ground, and the student performs ablutions before the Ratnakara, then the student experiences Ashatana. ||10||
**Word by Word Meaning:**
* Sehe - student
* Rayaniyeṇaṁ - Ratnakara
* Saddiṁ - with
* Bahiya - outside
* Va - or
* Viyara - excretion
* Bhūmi - ground
* Nikkhaṁte - goes
* Samaṇe - being
* Tattha - there
* Puvvataraag - before
* Sehe - student
* Ayamāi - performs ablutions
* Pacchā - after
* Rayaniye - Ratnakara
* Sehass - student
* Asāyāna - Ashatana
* Bhavai - happens
**Meaning:**
If a student goes to the excretion ground with a Ratnakara, and the student performs ablutions before the Ratnakara, then the student experiences Ashatana.
**Commentary:**
This Sutra discusses the topics of cleanliness and humility. For example, if a Ratnakara and a student go to the excretion ground together, and they both take water from the same vessel, and place it at a designated spot, and then go to different places to perform excretion, if the student comes back first and performs ablutions before the Ratnakara, then the student experiences Ashatana. This is because it violates humility and also leads to the soul being in an inattentive state due to the absence of the Ratnakara. Therefore, if water is taken from the same vessel, the student should never perform ablutions before the Ratnakara. The student should perform ablutions only after the Ratnakara has done so.
Now, the question arises, if the water is not in the same vessel, but in separate vessels, then how should ablutions be performed? The solution is that if a monk has a separate vessel for ablutions, then they should not keep it too close to the excretion ground, nor too far away, but at a moderate distance. While performing ablutions, one should also ensure that they are not performed at the excretion ground itself, nor too far away, but at a moderate distance, so that they can become pure and fit for study.
The 'Thananga Sutra' describes ten chapters in its tenth chapter. Among them, the fourth chapter is called 'Ashuchi-Samant'. The 'Vyavahar Sutra' states in its seventh chapter, "No Kappāi Nigganthāṇam Va Nigganthine Va".