四分律行事鈔資持記 3.1077

3.1077

七覆藏他重罪戒。（佛在舍衛，偷羅難陀尼妹，名坻舍偷羅，知彼犯夷，恐得惡名，道默然不言，後坻合休道方言，白佛因制。坻，音遲。）若比丘尼，知比丘尼（決了彼犯。），犯波羅夷；不自發露，不語眾人（一二三人），不白大眾（四人若過。）；若於異時，彼比丘尼，或命過，或眾中舉（為僧擯舉。），或休道，或入外道眾；後作是言：我先知有如是非（於八夷中，隨有所犯。），是比丘尼波羅夷，不共住。犯緣中。覆重方犯，覆餘罪蘭。覆比丘提，覆下眾吉。

7. The precept on concealing another's major offense. (The Buddha was in Śrāvastī. The bhikṣuṇī Sthūlanandā's sister, named Thullanandā-deśā [Thiśa-toulanantā], knew that she had committed an expulsion offense, and fearing she would gain an evil reputation, kept silent and did not speak. Later, when Thiśa left the path, she only then spoke of it. The bhikṣuṇīs reported it to the Buddha, who instituted the precept on this account. The character '坻' is pronounced chí.) If a bhikṣuṇī knows that a bhikṣuṇī (with clear certainty of her offense) has committed a pārājika, and does not herself expose it, nor tell other people (one, two, or three persons), nor inform the Saṃgha (four persons or more); and if at a later time that bhikṣuṇī should die, or be suspended in the Saṃgha (suspended and expelled by the Saṃgha), or leave the path, or enter a group of non-Buddhists; and she subsequently makes this statement: 'I previously knew of such an offense' (any offense committed among the eight expulsions)—this bhikṣuṇī commits a pārājika and is not to live in communion. Among the conditions of the offense, only concealing a major offense constitutes this offense; concealing remaining offenses is a sthūlātyaya. Concealing a bhikṣu's [offense] is a pāyattika; concealing [the offense of] lower classes of people is a duṣkṛta.