四分律行事鈔資持記 2.1348

2.1348

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.