四分比丘戒本疏 2.29

2.29

The twenty-third precept: on begging yarn from an unrelated person and having an unrelated person weave it into a robe. Examining the purpose of this precept: first, excessive involvements obstruct the path; second, it incurs ridicule; third, it causes harm to others; these combine to form the fault. Begging for yarn and managing its production constitutes excessive involvements; begging from an unrelated person incurs ridicule; and according to the *Daśabhāṇavāra-vinaya* and the *Sarvāstivāda-śāstra*, relying on influence to make someone weave without paying the price constitutes harming others. If any of these three matters is absent, one does not commit an offence of forfeiture, just as when begging to construct a hut oneself, there is the fault of exceeding the measurements, and so forth. The twenty-fourth precept: on secretly encouraging better weaving knowing that another intends to donate. The twenty-fifth precept: on taking back a gifted robe when a covert request is thwarted. Guangtong said: “Originally giving the robe without division, this clarifies the precept on forcibly taking it back.” Old masters merely called it the precept on first giving a robe to another and later taking it back, which is far too obscure. According to the text of the Vinaya, one first gives a robe to another while harbouring an inward wish to make a covert request, wanting him to go along into the human realm to carry out conversions together; when the other person subsequently does not go, one becomes angry and takes it back. That is to say, it is an offence of taking back where there was indefinite giving and definite taking. If there was definite giving and definite taking, or definite giving and indefinite taking, in both of these cases taking it back incurs a grave offence. If both were indefinite, taking it back incurs a duṣkṛta.