四分律行事鈔資持記 2.852

2.852

There are eight non-offenses. The first permits good retrieval; the remaining seven are all distinguished by the word 'if'. 'Knowing their own regret' means knowing oneself and returning it immediately, without waiting for the other to demand it. 'Life or celibacy' means that because of giving it, a crisis is incurred, and snatching it back averts it. From 'One...' onward, it summarizes. The transmitted text has corruptions and omissions, which have puzzled ancient and modern scholars. According to the annotated precept text: 'All snatching and taking without hiding away incurs no offense.' Because the Vinaya determines it only upon snatching face to face and hiding away; here in clarifying non-offense, the intent is to show that in all these circumstances it may be snatched without necessarily having to hide it away; this phrase thus generally concludes the above conditions, hence saying 'all'. Alternatively, snatching face to face without a valid reason and without hiding away only incurs a duṣkṛta, not determining the principal offense, and therefore enters non-offense, thus adding to the previous eight to make nine exceptions.