[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1804) › 2.291 # 四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔 2.291 四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔 2.291 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.291](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1804.2.291) 過量床足戒八十四。五緣：一是床，二僧床及已，三過量，四自作使人，五作成便犯。本為截者，不截方犯。律云：高如來八指。《多論》：木床高大悉犯，俗人八戒亦同。八指者，一指二寸，姬周尺一尺六寸，唐尺一尺三寸彊。《五分》：得高床施，先作念截却，得受；不爾者墮。《僧祇》：僧床亦犯。恐施主嫌者，木筩盛脚埋之。乃至截脚木還搘床脚亦犯，隨坐起一一墮。若下濕處，用八指木搘脚得（準此，下濕處搘床者，應開得在上禮佛；若搘高者不合也）。若俗家高床不犯（《四分》亦同）。《十誦》云：截竟，僧中懺罪。八指者，用我指量（上開搘脚木，用人八指量），第三分入梐。準此，《十誦》疏家以八寸為量，四等分之。又云：長床極小容四比丘坐處；臥床過三肘。降四歲共坐，若減不得坐。床長一肘半，得二人共坐。床搘不得過八指。《四分》不犯者：去地八指，若減，若脫脚，無犯。 > Precept 84: Exceeding the standard measure for bed legs. Five conditions: first, it is a bed; second, it is a Saṃgha bed or one's own; third, it exceeds the measurement; fourth, making it oneself or having someone make it; fifth, completion constitutes the offense. If originally intended to be cut down, the offense is incurred only when one fails to cut it down. The Vinaya says: The height is eight Tathāgata finger-widths. The Sarvāstivāda-vinaya-vibhāṣā states: If a wooden bed is high and large, all are offenses; the eight precepts for laypeople are the same. Eight finger-widths means two inches per finger, which is one foot six inches by the Ji-Zhou ruler, and a little over one foot three inches by the Tang ruler. The Pañcavargika-vinaya states: If offered a high bed, make the intention beforehand to cut it down, and then one may accept it; otherwise, it is a pāyattika. The Mahāsāṃghika-vinaya states: \[Using\] a Saṃgha bed is also an offense. If fearing the donor will be displeased, place the legs in wooden hollows and bury them. Even using the wood cut from the legs to support the bed legs constitutes an offense; each time one sits or rises, each is a pāyattika. In a low and damp place, using an eight-finger-width piece of wood to prop up the legs is permitted (based on this, for a bed propped up in a low and damp place, an exception should allow one to pay homage to the Buddha upon it; but propping it higher is improper). A high bed in a layperson's house incurs no offense (the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya is the same). The Daśādhyāya-vinaya says: Once cut, repent the offense within the Saṃgha. 'Eight finger-widths' is measured by 'my' \[the Buddha's\] fingers (the above allowance for leg-propping wood uses the measure of a human's eight finger-widths), with the third part entering the mortise. Based on this, commentators on the Daśādhyāya-vinaya take eight inches as the measure, dividing it into four equal parts. It also says: A long bed at its smallest accommodates seating for four bhikṣus; a sleeping bed exceeds three cubits. Those four years junior may sit together; if fewer years apart, they must not sit together. A bed one and a half cubits long can accommodate two persons sitting together. The bed supports must not exceed eight finger-widths. In the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya, non-offenses include: eight finger-widths above the ground; if less than that; or if the legs are detached, there is no offense. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.290](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1804.2.290) - [Next: 2.292](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1804.2.292) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1804.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1804~en-mt.2.291) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1804.2.291](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1804.2.291) · Pramāṇa