四分律行事鈔資持記 1.1089

1.1089

依閏中三，初示文闕。比下，二取例。比即是例。前引論文。彼云：若閏四月者，則取前四月受雨衣，滿百二十日，故知含閏在其間矣。彼下，以開況制。開緩尚依，制急宜準。又下，三釋疑。疑云：閏是虛坐，既非正月，閏中出界，應不破夏，何須坐閏。故此通之。今明依閏雖經四月，閏不在數，但恐間絕三月實夏，故依之耳。

Under 'following the leap month', there are three parts. First, it shows the omission in the text. From 'by analogy' downward is the second, drawing an analogy; 'bi' means analogy. Earlier, the text of a treatise was cited. It states: 'If there is an intercalary fourth month, one takes the first fourth month to receive the rains-garments, reaching a full one hundred and twenty days; thus one knows that the intercalary month is contained therein.' From 'that' downward, it uses the permissive exception to illustrate the strict prohibition: if a lenient exception still conforms [to the leap month], an urgent prohibition should all the more follow it as standard. From 'further' downward is the third, resolving doubts. The doubter says: 'A leap month is an empty retreat; since it is not a regular month, leaving the boundary during the leap month ought not to break the retreat, so why is it necessary to observe the retreat during the leap month?' Therefore, this clarifies it: now we explain that although conforming to the leap month spans four months, the intercalary month is not counted in the tally; it is only followed out of fear of interrupting the three months of actual rains-retreat.