四分律行事鈔資持記 1.194

1.194

《善見》五法，言相交涉。初遵稟教法，二淨僧成眾，三傳受不絕，四行業清淨，五住持久永。所以唯據五人者，能辦受戒等眾法故。所以約五千年者，論問千年已，佛法為都滅耶？答：不都滅。於千年中得三達智（通達三世）；復千年中，得愛盡羅漢，無三達智；復千年中，得阿那含；復千年中，得斯陀含；復千年中，得須陀洹，學法五千歲得道；後五千年，學而不得道。萬歲後經書文字滅盡，但現剃頭有袈裟而已。

The five dharmas of the Samantapāsādikā are mutually interrelated: first, complying with and receiving the teaching; second, purifying the saṅgha to form a community; third, transmitting and receiving without interruption; fourth, bodily and verbal actions being pure; fifth, upholding and maintaining for a long time. The reason it relies solely on five persons is that they can carry out community actions such as receiving precepts. The reason it refers to five thousand years is that the treatise asks: “After a thousand years, is the Buddha's Dharma completely extinguished?” The answer is: “It is not completely extinguished. Within a thousand years, one attains the three kinds of knowledge (penetrating the three times); in another thousand years, one attains arhatship with desires exhausted, without the three kinds of knowledge; in another thousand years, one attains anāgāmin; in another thousand years, one attains sakṛdāgāmin; in another thousand years, one attains srotāpanna. Practicing the Dharma for five thousand years, one attains the path; in the subsequent five thousand years, one practices but does not attain the path. After ten thousand years, scriptures, texts, and characters will be completely extinguished, and there will only appear shaved heads and kāṣāyas.”