大比丘三千威儀 2.98

2.98

Going to the latrine involves twenty-five matters: first, when walking to defecate or urinate, one must not pay homage to a sthavira on the road; second, one must also not accept homage from others; third, when going, one should look straight down at the ground; fourth, on arriving, one should snap one's fingers three times; fifth, if someone is already inside and snaps their fingers, one must not crowd them; sixth, having stopped and waited, one snaps one's fingers three times before squatting; seventh, squatting properly in the middle; eighth, one must not have one foot forward and one foot back; ninth, one must not lean one's body; tenth, gathering one's robes so as not to let them hang down into the privy; eleventh, one must not strain heavily so as to make one's face turn red; twelfth, one should look straight forward and must not turn around to look or listen; thirteenth, one must not soil the four walls with spit; fourteenth, one must not lower one's head to look into the privy pit; fifteenth, one must not look at one's genitals; sixteenth, one must not hold one's genitals with one's hand; seventeenth, one must not take grass to scratch characters on the ground; eighteenth, one must not take grass to scratch characters on the wall; nineteenth, using water must not be excessively wasteful; twentieth, one must not splash and soil [the area]; twenty-first, using water, one must not let the front hand touch the back hand; twenty-second, one should use earth three times; twenty-third, one should use washing powder; twenty-fourth, one should rinse with water three times; twenty-fifth, if one sees that water, grass, or earth are exhausted, one should inform the person in charge on duty, or it is good if one fetches them oneself.