[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) › 2.62 # 四分比丘戒本疏 2.62 四分比丘戒本疏 2.62 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1807.2.62) 第三十三、別眾食戒。謂於自然或復作法大小諸界，於同界內簡僧別請或別乞食。於此食處四人已上，簡他餘僧下至一人。又是時中食五正食，咽咽即犯別眾食罪。若請僧食，四人共食不犯別食，食味同故。准律制意，一恐惡人結朋破僧、二恐成僧檀越難濟，故但許其三人已下。准戒本中開文有七，演為八開，盡理便有十四。言七開者，一者、「病」，此病下至脚跟劈行不及伴。二者、「作衣時」，謂迦提一月，功德衣五月內，是應作衣時。三、「施衣時」，此開二種，如前戒辨。 > Thirty-third: the precept against eating in a separate group. This means that within various boundaries, whether natural or established by legal procedure, whether large or small, within the same boundary one excludes monks to receive a separate invitation or to beg separately for food. At such an eating place, where there are four or more persons, they exclude other monks, down to even a single person; and if during the proper time they eat the five primary foods, with every swallow they commit the offence of eating in a separate group. If the food is invited for the Saṃgha, four persons eating together do not commit \[the offence of\] separate eating, because the flavor of the food is identical. According to the intention of the Vinaya's enactment: first, it was feared that wicked persons would form cliques to disrupt the Saṃgha; second, it was feared that if \[all\] became Saṃgha \[gatherings\], it would be difficult for the dānapati to provide for them. Therefore, \[eating together without offence\] is permitted only for three persons or fewer. According to the Prātimokṣa text, there are seven exemptions, which can be expanded to eight, and when fully reasoned out, there are fourteen. As for the seven exemptions: first, 'illness'—this illness is down to having one's heel split so that one cannot walk to keep up with companions; second, 'the time of robe-making', which refers to the one month of the kārttika or within the five months of the kaṭhina robe, which is the time when robes ought to be made; third, 'the time of robe-giving'—this exemption has two kinds, as explained in the preceding precept. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1807.2.61) - [Next: 2.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1807.2.63) - [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.2.62) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1807.2.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1807.2.62) · Pramāṇa