四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔 2.249

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Precept 42: Entering a settlement without notifying those sharing the same benefit. Five conditions: first, having previously accepted an invitation from another, because of not accepting, the Buddha permitted entering a village without notifying; second, before or after the meal; third, without notifying and delegating; fourth, going to another house without reason; fifth, entering the gate constitutes an offense. The Mahāsāṃghika-vinaya [states]: If a bhikṣu begging for food in regular order arrives at a dānapati's house while begging, and [the host] then invites him to stay, and because of this he goes to another house, he incurs two pāyattikas. As in "turning one's back on an invitation" above. By doctrinal deduction, if one person accepts an invitation and there is no co-invitee, one must inform the host's family, or inform a kappiyakāraka, after which one may go elsewhere. First, so as not to distress the host of the meal, because if someone comes to ask, they will know his whereabouts. That Vinaya also states: If two bhikṣus each accept regular invitations, their visiting each other is also like this; they must inform the dānapati. The Dharmaguptaka Vinaya states: "Before the meal" is from the appearance of dawn until mealtime; "after the meal" is from mealtime until midday (by this deduction, it is the same as the mealtime in the Scripture on Time). "House" is where men and women dwell. "Informing another bhikṣu" means one residing within the same sīmā (unlike the improper time, because having received the invitation together, he knows the whereabouts). If having notified and delegated, one goes toward the village but turns back halfway, or goes to another house, or goes to the storehouse within the monastery, or to a peripheral room, or goes into a nunnery, or leaves that layperson's house, in all these cases the previous notification and delegation is lost, and one must notify another again; if not, entering the gate is a pāyattika. Non-offenses: being sick; having informed; the time of kaṭhina; the time of giving robes; having no bhikṣu to notify; going to another storehouse or nunnery; or house after house spreading many sitting mats to invite the bhikṣus. The Daśādhyāya-vinaya [states]: If the food is insufficient, or if it is improper, seeking it elsewhere is not an offense. The Sarvāstivāda-vinaya-vibhāṣā [states]: If the host provides a meal tomorrow and one goes today, it is a pāyattika; except when the host calls for him. Detailed as in the lower fascicle.