瑜伽論記 6.299

6.299

Fourth, in explaining holding the saṃghāṭī and so forth: saṃghāṭī was formerly called senggheli, which is an error; this is the general name. Regarding 'the great robe, either of sixty strips or of nine strips', etc.: if according to the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya, it is from nine strips up to nineteen strips; if exceeding this number, one may also keep it, or some say one should not keep it; is the Vinaya text not indeterminate? Vinaya Master Shou says: 'The word 'also' should be based on the Sarvāstivāda treatises, where there are three grades, with up to twenty-five strips called the superior robe. Now, according to this treatise: (Another text says: Based on the absolute maximum, sixty strips; but examining the Vinayas and treatises of the five schools, one has never seen strips sewn together to make a robe, whereas the lowest of nine strips is mutually accepted by all schools). Regarding sixty strips, someone explained: it is a fifteen-strip kāṣāya, with each single strip having three long and one short piece, thus making sixty strips.' Master Ji says: 'One may provisionally make this explanation of sixty strips, or one may obtain even more, at most one hundred and fifty strips.'