四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔 3.446

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言人戒。四緣成：一詣俗官所，二言白衣，三辭列其事，四下手疏，犯。《四分》：詣官共爭曲直，若斷事人下手疏者，犯；口說者，偷蘭。《善見》：尼共居士往官所，語居士言，汝說理，若說，尼吉羅；居士說已，尼後說，偷蘭；居士復說，尼得理不得理，皆殘。若居士言尼，官喚來，官自判與奪，尼不犯。若尼至官所言人，令官罰物；隨多少，犯罪，應償。若被奪物，就官乞護，不道名字，官自訪得、治罰，無犯。若人入寺，斫伐樹木，不得奪刀斧，應還直。《五分》：若尼為人輕陵，語父母、親里有力者，援護之。《十誦》：在斷事人前，瞋恨呵罵本所打人，僧殘；若向餘人說，偷蘭。

The precept against accusing a person [before authorities]. It is constituted by four conditions: first, going to the place of a lay official; second, accusing a layperson; third, presenting the matter in words; fourth, having an indictment drawn up—she commits [an offense]. The Dharmaguptaka Vinaya states: Going to an official to contest rights and wrongs together, if the adjudicator has an indictment drawn up, she commits [a saṃghāvaśeṣa]; if it is stated orally, it is a thullaccaya. The Samantapāsādikā states: A nun goes with a kulapati to an official's place and says to the kulapati, "You state the facts"; if he speaks, the nun commits a duṣkṛta. After the kulapati speaks, if the nun speaks afterward, it is a thullaccaya. If the kulapati speaks again, whether the nun gains the verdict or not, all are saṃghāvaśeṣas. If the kulapati accuses the nun, the official summons her, and the official himself decides awards and confiscations, the nun does not commit an offense. If a nun goes to an official's place to accuse a person, causing the official to fine property, according to the amount, an offense is committed and she should make restitution. If property is seized from her and she seeks protection from an official without speaking names, and the official investigates on his own, finds them, and penalizes them, there is no offense. If a person enters a monastery and cuts down trees, one must not seize the knives and axes; their value should be returned. The Pañcavargika-vinaya states: If a nun is mistreated by someone, she may tell her parents or powerful relatives so that they may protect her. The Daśādhyāya-vinaya states: Before an adjudicator, if out of resentment she scolds and reviles the person originally struck, it is a saṃghāvaśeṣa; if she speaks to other persons, it is a thullaccaya.