四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔 3.171

3.171

Third, the receiving bhikṣu has two points. First, he must personally be free from five faults: (1) continuous possession: if he has kept it up to the seventh day, receiving the medicine again on that same day is not valid. The *Mahāsāṃghika-vinaya* states: If a bhikṣu has rock sugar on the seventh day and obtains more rock sugar on that same day, this is called "mutual defilement." Question: Since the time has not yet expired, why does it defile? Answer: It is not a defilement due to offending by keeping extra; rather, because after taking it for the preceding seven days the illness is still not cured, taking more is useless, and the formal procedure is invalid; if he obtains a different medicine, he may perform the seven-day procedure. (2) Continuous possession: having previously kept the medicine until the eighth day, committing an offense of keeping extra, if he receives medicine on that day into his hands and performs the procedure, it is defiled and can no longer be consumed. (3) Having consumed another's seventh-day medicine, if he obtains it for himself on the same day, the procedure is invalid, because the flavours of the medicines are identical; such is the case in the *Mahāsāṃghika-vinaya*. (4) Continuous receipt: the *Mahāsāṃghika-vinaya* states that if a bhikṣu receives medicine every day for seven days, receiving it without consuming it, on the eighth day he must not receive more; there must be an interval of one day without receipt. This refers to greedily over-receiving without consuming it for treatment. (The *Dharmaguptaka Vinaya* lacks this text, but applying it as a standard is also good.) (5) Continuous offense: the *Mahāsāṃghika-vinaya* states that if a bhikṣu takes it continuously for seven days, on the eighth day he must stop, and cannot take more; this does not preclude receiving a different medicine. The above discussion of continuity is stated with regard to a single honey medicine; if he obtains oil, he may also immediately add the procedure. The *Mahāsāṃghika-vinaya* states: Raw butter, clarified butter, and ghee, successively changing flavours, may be received anew for seven days. Second, he performs four requirements himself: (1) receiving with upturned hands; (2) differentiation, stating the thought of it as "seven-day oil"; if his original intention in receiving it was to burn lamps or rub his feet, it is invalid, as explained in the *Mahāsāṃghika-vinaya*; (3) designation, stating "pure things arise within this, and I shall receive them" (if it is free from time-appropriate food, this utterance is not needed); (4) transformation: receiving raw butter to make clarified butter (he should have a kappiyakāraka cook it, though he may also cook it himself; after both methods of cooking, he receives it again from the kappiyakāraka; although it was previously received, because receipt was lost through the change of flavour, this is not called improper touch). The *Vibhāṣā* states: Once the seven-day medicine has been physically and verbally received, place it in one spot and do not let a kappiyakāraka touch it.