四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔 2.121

2.121

The Sarvāstivāda-vinaya-vibhāṣā states: "When one obtains cloth that meets or does not meet the standard measure, it is best to perform the formal assignment immediately; if one does not perform it, there is no fault up to ten days. If one neither performs the formal assignment nor formally receives and maintains it, then on the eleventh day when the ground is distinguishable, if it meets the standard measure, one relinquishes it and confesses with a pāyattika; if it does not meet the standard measure, it is treated as above." The Samantapāsādikā states: "If bundled in one place, it is a single offense; if not bundled, counting piece by piece of cloth, as the appearance of dawn arises, one incurs offenses according to their locations." Question: "When an active defiler [robe] meets the standard measure, what about the passive defiler [robe]?" Answer: "It applies whether it meets or does not meet the standard measure. Just as with finishing a sufficient meal, whether lawful or unlawful food, both incur an offense of eating beyond sufficiency. If the active defiler is material that does not meet the standard measure, does it defile that which meets the standard measure?" Answer: "Although large and small differ, the principle of relinquishment and confession is one; the Vinaya establishes the major pāyattika, while the Vibhāṣā establishes the minor duṣkṛta, and thus all constitute a single defilement." The Mahāsāṃghika-vinaya states: "If it is property shared between two persons and not yet divided; if it is property donated to the saṃgha whose allotted share has not yet reached one's hands; if it is property entrusted by a sick person that has not yet been handed over; if one hears that an upasampadā disciple or friend has sent cloth, but it has not reached one's hands; if one trades for cloth and settles the price, but it has not reached one's hands; if cloth is being woven, but has not reached one's hands—in all these cases, even if ten days have passed, none incur an offense of relinquishment. If it is cloth donated to the saṃgha that is undivided, even after a long time there is no offense. If it has already been divided and shared among many people, and among them is someone skilled in the Vinaya who performs the formal assignment on behalf of the multitude, there is no offense; if he does not perform it, passing ten days incurs an offense of relinquishment (this refers to those living communally; the preceding clause refers to those not living communally)." In the Vinaya, five allowances are granted in border regions, where an extra robe must be in one's hands for ten days before an offense is incurred; based on this, in other regions it is not necessarily that one must physically hold it before committing an offense. The Saṃghabhedavastu states: "How is the ten-day robe an offense? It means that when it reaches one's hands, or on one's knees, or on one's shoulders, and one conceives the thought, 'This is my property,' counting from that point, ten days elapse." The Vinayavibhāṣā states: "There is property acquired where the eyes reach, not where the body reaches, which enters into the count: for instance, when someone donates cloth, clarified butter, and so on, if one merely forms the intention that it belongs to oneself, passing the days constitutes an offense. There is that acquired where the body reaches, not where the eyes reach; and that acquired where both eyes and body reach. That which does not enter into the count is when a person does not permit oneself to receive it, intending to donate it to the Three Jewels. There is also that which is acquired where neither reaches, which also enters into the count." In the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya: "If on the first day one obtains cloth, but on the second day one does not, up to the eleventh day, throughout there is no offense." Such categories fully possess eight doors, none of which defile each other; in the remaining cases without a valid circumstance, it is an offense. The second is an intervening formal assignment; the third is sending it to give to another person; the fourth is losing the cloth; the fifth is intentional destruction (meaning by wind, fire, water, or dampness, being burnt or rotten according to circumstances); the sixth is making it into non-clothing (meaning not for wearing, belonging to the class of caps and socks); the seventh is the intention of intimate friendship (because it is not one's own property); the eighth is forgetting it (because the mind is confused; whether one forgets the substance of the property or forgets the formal rite, both allow ten days). The Vinaya also states: "If cloth subject to relinquishing pāyattika is not relinquished, and one trades it for other cloth, there is one niḥsargika and one duṣkṛta." In the past, this was because the property was gone, but the intent to store defiled and incurred an offense. In the treatises it is not so. The Vibhāṣā states: "If it was previously material of standard measure subject to relinquishing pāyattika, and one makes it into cloth of standard or non-standard measure, this cloth must be relinquished entirely and confessed with a pāyattika; if it was previously material of non-standard measure subject to relinquishing pāyattika, and one makes the aforementioned two kinds of cloth, both are relinquished and confessed with a duṣkṛta. Second, if it was previously material of standard measure subject to relinquishing pāyattika, and one trades it to obtain cloth material, and then makes the two kinds of cloth, this cloth is not confessed, but one confesses the previous pāyattika offense (based on this, the later cloth has no defilement). If it was of non-standard measure, and one trades to obtain the two kinds of cloth, one does not relinquish them; because it has already entered into formal purification, one confesses the previous duṣkṛta." The Vinaya's establishment above of one niḥsargika refers to the previous cloth's pāyattika offense; the one duṣkṛta refers to trading without confessing, because of disobeying the Buddha's words. The Vinaya states: "If a niḥsargika robe is not relinquished, it should not be given to others, nor even made into the three robes, and so forth."