四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔 1.499

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初定緣是非者。凡受日緣務，要是三寶、請喚、生善滅惡者，聽往。若請喚為利、三寶非法、破戒有難，雖受不成；妄數為夏，計為年德，[曰/月]受利養，隨有結罪。《善見》云：自長己夏，受施犯重。若為私己衣鉢藥草，如法悉成；若為治生覓利，販賣生口牛畜等物，縱為三寶，並破夏得罪。《五百問》云：治生破戒得財造佛，得福不？答：尚不免地獄，何況得福？《薩婆多》云：治生造佛，不應禮拜等。廣如後文。

First, determining the validity or invalidity of the circumstances: For any circumstances or duties in taking leave for days, if it is fundamentally for the Three Jewels, responding to an invitation, or generating good and eradicating evil, one is permitted to go. If the invitation is for profit, if the matter of the Three Jewels is contrary to the Dharma, or if there is breaking of precepts or danger, even if taken, it is not accomplished. Reckoning it falsely as [part of] the varṣā and calculating it as seniority, receiving offerings day by day, each incurs an offense. The Samantapāsādikā states: 'Falsely increasing one's own varṣā and receiving offerings constitutes a grave offense.' If it is for one's own robes, bowl, or medicinal herbs, as long as it accords with the Dharma, it is entirely accomplished. If it is for engaging in commerce to seek profit, or trading in slaves, cattle, livestock, and such things, even if done for the Three Jewels, all break the varṣā and incur offenses. The Five Hundred Questions asks: 'If one engages in commerce and breaks precepts to obtain wealth to make a Buddha image, does one obtain merit?' Answer: 'One does not even escape hell, how much less obtain merit?' The Sarvāstivāda-vinaya-vibhāṣā states: 'One should not prostrate to Buddha images made through commerce,' and so forth, as detailed in the later text.