四分律行事鈔資持記 2.1348

2.1348

釋中，《多論》，初明緣開。若下，次明正犯。順法謂如法羯磨。王下，因示別制。如今國令，違皆小罪。世人妄以紫服為王制者；餘僧服褐，皆應犯制。但欲飾非，寧知毀教。不犯中，其事實爾，作非法羯磨；錯說彼此者開。

In the explanation, the Sarvāstivāda Vinaya Vibhāṣā first clarifies the conditions for exception. The phrase "If..." below next clarifies the principal offense. "In accordance with the Dharma" means a karma performed as prescribed. Below "king," it illustrates special regulations in passing. Just like modern imperial orders, transgressing any of them is a minor offense. Worldly people erroneously take purple robes to be a royal regulation; all other monks wearing coarse brown robes would then violate the regulation. They merely wish to gloss over their wrongs; how could they know they are destroying the teaching? Under "Non-offenses": the facts were truly so, and an unlawful karma was performed; or one mistakenly spoke of that instead of this, in which case it is an exception.