四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔 2.93

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Second, there are six differing clauses according to the analytical framework: 1. The *Daśādhyāya-vinaya* and the *Vinayavibhāṣā* say: When coins fluctuate in value, this does not prevent one coin from incurring a grave offense when coins are dear, whereas stealing hundreds of thousands incurs a light offense when they are cheap. 2. The *Dharmaguptaka-vinaya*, *Pañcavargika-vinaya*, and *Samantapāsādikā* say: If one steals an object in a place where it is dear and sells it in a place where it is cheap, the valuation still relies on the original place of the theft. 3. The *Samantapāsādikā* says: If one steals when it is dear and sells when it is cheap, in determining the offense, it still relies on the original time. The above three clauses, when inverted, likewise result in a reduction to a light offense. 4. In the *Vinayamātṛkā*: Taking five thousand does not incur a grave offense—if one repeatedly takes four coins, repeatedly forming the thought of terminating the act. Or, one might incur a grave offense without obtaining the object, as in the *Dharmaguptaka-vinaya*: burning, burying, spoiling the color, instructing another, and so forth. 5. Offenses under five coins constituting a grave offense, as in the *Dharmaguptaka-vinaya*: A group of people sends one person to steal five coins to divide among the many; or many people steal together, treating it as a single share—as long as it reaches five coins, all equally share the theft and incur a grave offense. Or, stealing over five coins incurs a light offense, as in the *Daśādhyāya-vinaya*: stealing the undivided property of a community, such as the light possessions left by a deceased person. 6. Stealing one coin each from five persons incurs a grave offense, as in the *Mahāsāṃghika-vinaya*: If five persons each assign one coin to one person to guard and keep, if someone steals them, the offense is reckoned with respect to the custodian. The *Samantapāsādikā* says: 'If you wish to know the characteristics of theft: for example, if four people, teacher and disciples, mutually instruct one another to jointly steal six coins from one person, each incurs one pārājika and one sthūlātyaya. One's own deed does not merge with the deed of instructing another, so [for the latter] one only incurs a sthūlātyaya.' This principle should be known.