[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [四分比丘戒本疏](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1807) › 2.43 # 四分比丘戒本疏 2.43 四分比丘戒本疏 2.43 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1807.2.43) 第十一、壞生種戒。律云「鬼神」者，非人也。今詳，非人通攝畜生趣，故《十誦》第十云「謂生草木，眾生依住。眾生者，謂樹神等乃至蚊虻蝎虫蟻子等」也。尋律大意，有二種生：一者根枝等種、二者穀麥等種。隨破一一種一一粒，一一波逸提。若食菓菜等并子食者，使淨人於淨地中要作火淨。若不食子，刀破爪指去核而食。《僧祇》第十四「摩摩啼知有倉穀未淨，恐年少比丘不解法，使淨人火淨已，至盡已來恒得語言舂去不犯。」廣如諸律。 > Eleventh: the precept against destroying living plants and seeds. As for 'ghosts and spirits' in the Vinaya, these are non-humans. Now, upon examination, 'non-humans' broadly includes the animal realm as well; therefore the tenth fascicle of the Daśabhāṇavāra states: 'It refers to living grass and trees where sentient beings abide. Sentient beings refers to tree spirits and so forth, down to mosquitoes, gnats, scorpions, worms, ants, and the like.' Investigating the main sense of the Vinaya, there are two kinds of living things: first, root and branch seeds; second, grain and wheat seeds. Breaking any single one of them or single grain incurs a prāyaścittika for each. If when eating fruits, vegetables, and the like one also eats the seeds, one must have a kappiya-kāraka perform fire-purification in a pure place. If one does not eat the seeds, one should remove the pits with a knife or fingernails and eat them. The fourteenth fascicle of the Mahāsāṃghika\[-vinaya\] states: 'Mamatī knew there were granary grains not yet made pure; fearing that the younger monks did not understand the Dharma, he had a kappiya-kāraka perform fire-purification, after which, until it was all consumed, one could always tell him to pound it without committing an offence.' This is as set forth extensively in the various vinayas. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1807.2.42) - [Next: 2.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1807.2.44) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1807.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1807~en-mt.2.43) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1807.2.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1807.2.43) · Pramāṇa