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## Translation:
**Somaseṇabhaṭṭāraka Composed**
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**16.** After saying "Namaḥ Siddhebya" with the nasal sound, one should place the front foot forward, remembering the Jina, and slowly proceed towards a place suitable for the discharge of excrement.
**17-18.** One should take along camphor, saffron, a seat, sandalwood, durva grass, rice grains, and sesame seeds, either carrying them oneself or having a servant carry them. While walking, one should be very careful and look at the ground four steps ahead. One should avoid touching outcastes, scavengers, pigs, and other non-self-conscious beings.
**19-20.** One should discharge excrement in a place that is far from the city, secluded, free from living creatures, spacious, and out of sight of people. It should be a place where there are no shrines of ghosts, spirits, demons, yakshas, or worldly deities.
**21.** One should urinate at least ten steps away from a water body, and defecate at least one hundred steps away. If it is a river, one should defecate at least four times that distance.
**1.** Forty steps and four hundred steps.