Manava Dharmashastra 5.132

5.132

“dehāccaiva malāścyutāḥ” ityaśuddhatāyāmidamucyate | viṇmūtre utsṛjyete yena sa viṇmūtrotsargaḥ pāyvāditastya śuddhayarthaṃ mṛdvāryādeyamarthavat | anādṛtya saṃkhyāṃ yāvatībhirgandhalepāvapasarpetastāvatīrapo mṛdaśca gṛhṇīyāt | dehe bhavā daihikā malā aśucitvāpādakāḥ | tadarthāsvapi śuddhiṣu śuddhāriṇo ubhe apyarthavatī ādeye | smṛtyantare paṭhyate— “ādadīta mṛdo'paśśca ṣaṭsu pūrveṣu śuddhaye | uttareṣu tu ṣaṭsvadbhiḥ kevalābhistu śudhyati”|| viśuddheṣu śleṣmādiṣu smṛtyantare paṭhitaṃ snehavisraṃsanaṃ nāsikyaṃ śleṣmā''cakṣate | teṣāmmate satyapyuttaraṣaṭkatayā na mṛda ādātavyā eva |

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
The impurity of the bodily excretions having been asserted in 131, the present verse proceeds to lay down directions for their cleansing.

‘Ejectors of urine and faeces’—i.e., the. organs by which these are passed,—i. e. the Anus &c.;—for the cleansing of these—one should ‘use earth and water, as much as may be necessary’; i. e. not minding any restrictions as to the number (of washings and rubbings), one should go on taking up as much water and earth as may be necessary for the total removal of smells and stains.

‘Bodily’—proceeding from the body,—‘excretions’—which are sources of impurity. In connection with the purifications necessitated by these also, earth and water are to be used as much as may be necessary. In another Smṛti we read—‘In the case of the former six excretions both earth and water should be used; in the case of the latter six one is purified even by the use of water only’.

In connection with phlegm &c. it is thus declared in another Smṛti—‘The viscid excretion from the nose is called Phlegm’; and since this occurs among the latter group of six, for cleansing it earth need not be used at all.—(132).