四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔 3.192

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三色是非。《四分》云：應熏作黑色、赤色。《僧祇》：熏鉢作孔雀咽色、鴿色者，如法。若準律文，並須熏治。律文廣具熏法。而世有素瓦、白鐵，掍鋧（堅硯瓦）為色者；或先熏鐵鉢，而剝落者；先熏瓦鉢，但棍不磨；色淺落受膩者；有用麻油塗者。並為非法。親問翻經三藏云：中國無用油鉢者，若此土行用，一度訖，即打破，不許再用。《五百問》中，不許受畜。準此，瓦澡鑵，義同油鉢。《善見》云：鐵鉢五熏已用，土鉢二熏已用受持。諸部律並明熏法。此方用熏二遍入籠，猶未變色，但用法不同。

Third, the correctness of colour: The *Dharmaguptaka-vinaya* says: One should smoke them black or red. The *Mahāsāṃghika-vinaya* says: Smoking a bowl to the colour of a peacock's throat or a pigeon's colour is in accordance with the Dharma. According to the vinaya texts, all must be treated by smoking. The vinaya texts give the smoking method in detail. However, in the world there are plain earthenware and white iron, using rough burnishing to produce colour; or those where an iron bowl was smoked beforehand but the coating has peeled off; or an earthenware bowl was smoked beforehand but only rubbed without being polished, so that the colour is thin and peels away, absorbing grease; or there are those who smear it with sesame oil. All of these are non-Dharma. When I personally asked a translation tripiṭaka master, he said: In the Central Country (India) no one uses oiled bowls; if they are used in this land, once used, they are immediately broken, not permitted to be used again. In the *Five Hundred Questions* [on the Vinaya], receiving and keeping them is not permitted. According to this, earthenware washing ewers are in principle the same as oiled bowls. The *Samantapāsādikā* says: An iron bowl is used after five smokings; an earthenware bowl is used and held after two smokings. The vinayas of the various schools all clarify the smoking method. In this region, smoking them twice in an oven still does not change their colour; it is simply that their methods of application differ.