Vinaya Texts

SR No.: 007684
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: T W Rhys Davids, Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1881
Total Pages: 2523
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 47 MB

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V, 140
PURIFICATION.
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135. Oily exudations, semen, blood, (the fatty substance of the) brain, urine, faeces, the mucus of the nose, ear-wax, phlegm, tears, the rheum of the eyes, and sweat are the twelve impurities of human (bodies).
136. He who desires to be pure, must clean the organ by one (application of) earth, the anus by (applying earth) three (times), the (left) hand alone by (applying it) ten (times), and both (hands) by (applying it) seven (times).
137. Such is the purification ordained for householders; it shall be) double for students, treble for hermits, but quadruple for ascetics.
138. When he has voided urine or faeces, let him, after sipping water, sprinkle the cavities, likewise when he is going to recite the Veda, and always before he takes food.
139. Let him who desires bodily purity first sip water three times, and then twice wipe his mouth; but a woman and a Sudra (shall perform each act) once (only).
140. Sadras who live according to the law, shall each month shave their heads); their mode of purification (shall be) the same as that of Vaisyas, and their food the fragments of an Aryan's meal.
136. Vas. VI, 18 ; Vi. LX, 25. 137. Vas. VI, 19; Vi. LX, 26.
138. Gaut. I, 36; Baudh. I, 8, 26; Vi. LXII, 8. "The cavities,' i.e. of the head (Gov.), and also the navel, the heart, and the crown of the head (Nâr., Kull.).
139. Ap. I, 16, 3–8; Gaut. I, 36; Vas. III, 27-28; Baudh. I, 8, 20–22; Vi. LXII, 6–8; Yagñ. I, 20.
II, 3, 4-6. Who live according to the law,' i.e. who serve Aryans' (Medh., Gov., Kull., Râgh.). Nand. thinks that mâsikam vapanam karyam, 'shall shave each month,' means 'shall offer the monthly Srâddha.' [25]
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