四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔 2.263

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The fifty-sixth precept: bathing within less than a half-month. Five conditions: first, having bathed previously; second, a half-month has not elapsed; third, there is no justifying condition; fourth, bathing again; fifth, washing half the body constitutes an offense. The Dharmaguptaka Vinaya states: Excepted are the hot season, which is forty-five days after spring and the first month of summer. Illness extends down to foul odor of the body. Work extends down to sweeping the ground before a room. The two times of wind and rain extend down to a single whirlwind or a single drop of rain striking the body. Traveling on the road extends down to walking back and forth for half a yojana. All are permitted. In the absence of these, washing more than half the body incurs a pāyattika, while the preparatory action requires repentance of a duṣkṛta. The Sarvāstivāda-vinaya-vibhāṣā states: In India it becomes hot early; bathing is permitted from the beginning of the third month to the middle of the fifth month. One follows the early or late onset of heat in one's country to apply this limit for bathing. The Daśādhyāya-vinaya states: Standing and washing in heavy rain in the open is also permitted. If there is a reason, but one bathes without first informing the other bhikṣus, it is a duṣkṛta. One must not share a bathroom with laypeople; those who are known to be virtuous and without verbal faults are permitted to enter. A bhikṣu rubbing down a layperson incurs a duṣkṛta. If a dhūta practitioner does not use another person to rub him down, but braids a rope to rub his own body, that is good. The Pañcavargika-vinaya states: Bathing together with laypeople in a bathroom incurs a sthūlāccaya. The Sarvāstivāda-vinaya-vibhāṣā states: Whenever bathing in an open or covered place, one must not be together with laypeople (following this treatise is good), and one must wear an aṃsakakṣikā; first, one should have a sense of shame, and second, it tends to arouse another's desire. Because an arhat's body was soft when washed, an ordinary person who saw it gave rise to defilement and lost his male organ, and only after repenting did he regain his original body. The Pañcavargika-vinaya states: If one bathes one's master or a sick person, and one's own body is already wet, bathing as a consequence is without offense. The Mahāsāṃghika-vinaya states: One follows the full count of fifteen days. When bathing, after tending to the hot water and fire, one strikes the wooden block to make a sound, allowing the entire saṃgha to enter in order. If there is no justifying condition, one uses the potter's method: first washing the two thighs and two feet, and later washing the head, face, waist, back, arms, elbows, chest, and armpits. The rest is as in the lower fascicle.