四分律行事鈔資持記 2.905

2.905

引《僧祇》。上法者，彼云汝是栴陀羅剃髮師瓦師織師皮師種姓，此中罵己唯重，罵他三階，親疎別故。中罵者，彼云汝是中間種姓（吏兵姓伎兒姓）。下者，彼云汝是剎帝利婆羅門種姓，作是語欲使彼慚者犯。（準彼律前是下罵，此為上罵，蓋約種姓尊卑；今鈔回互，乃就惡語深淺；或恐上下二字，前後寫誤。）中罵己及父母皆蘭，和尚同友並吉，下罵一切皆吉，故云並遞減一等。面比外者，彼律不論面比，應是躡前《四分》為言；離前諸相，別加一種。注中且約種姓出相，餘皆準知。

Citing the *Mahāsāṃghika-vinaya*: "Superior methods": that text says, "You are of the caste of caṇḍālas, barbers, potters, weavers, or tanners"; reviling oneself among these is solely heavy, while reviling others has three grades, because of differences between close and distant relations. "Middling reviling": that text says, "You are of an intermediate caste" (the caste of clerks and soldiers, the caste of entertainers). "Inferior": that text says, "You are of the kṣatriya or brāhmaṇa caste"; making such statements with the desire to make the other person feel ashamed is a violation. (According to that vinaya, the former was inferior reviling and this was superior reviling, which was probably in terms of the superiority or inferiority of the castes; now the Manual transposes them, taking them in terms of the depth of the evil words; or perhaps the two characters "superior" and "inferior" were mistakenly copied before and after.) In middling reviling, reviling oneself and one's parents are both thullaccaya; one's upādhyāya and companions are both duṣkṛta; in inferior reviling, all are duṣkṛta; hence it says "each decreases by one grade". "Aside from face-to-face comparison": that vinaya does not discuss face-to-face comparison; it should be taken as following the preceding *Dharmaguptaka-vinaya*; apart from the previous characteristics, one kind is additionally added. In the note, the characteristics are briefly presented in terms of caste, and the rest should be understood accordingly.