俱舍論頌疏論本 18.35

18.35

"In error and the like it is absent or present": "absent" means intending to kill parents with an act of immediate retribution but mistakenly killing another person, or intending to kill another person but mistakenly killing parents—neither constitutes an act of immediate retribution. "And the like" includes killing another person without an intimation (vijñapti). For example, if a person initiates a single preparatory action to kill the mother and another person, there are two non-intimations (avijñapti), but the intimation is only one. There is an intimation only with respect to the mother, and no intimation with respect to the other person, because the power of karma of immediate retribution is strong, so it must have an intimation. Venerable Ghoṣaka says: 'There are two intimations; because intimation is aggregated, constituted by subtle atoms, the atoms of intimation are each distinct. It is due to the karmic intimation that the other's life is severed; therefore there must be an intimation.' 'Or present': if one kills an arhat without the notion of an arhat, having formed a definite intention to kill that body without differentiation, there is also the sin of immediate retribution; hence it says 'or present.' If one kills one's father, and the father is an arhat, one incurs a single sin of immediate retribution, because the body is one.