量處輕重儀 1.105

1.105

已前一段，若準律本，通例重收。斯何故耶？由體相俱重，從多約判。如瓶罐之器，資道要緣，理須入輕。不同杖扇，以大小通約，用有時限，兼加聖法，乃得畜用。瓶罐不爾，隨身澡漱，滌穢洗沐，事起常須，義必輕收，無宜入重。又諸部相映，非重者多，故《五分》云，除瓦澡罐聽分，餘不應分。此即正斷入輕，若約量通會，律本入重者，據大瓶為言也。故《十誦》云，銅瓦澡罐，二斗已下入輕。此則明顯灼然，通衢達矣。古來傳授並依律斷，意以資身接道，要務常須恒用，又制自隨，故在輕也。又諸律明判，非敢自量，故《僧祇》中，新受具已，令畜應法澡罐將行。明知大者非法，不堪隨道，可如律本斷重者是也。又如剃刀鉢器，並是性重，由供濟處深，在緣正要，並斷在輕。瓶罐急務過前，義無重攝，故博通異部，精練是非，既博且精，事無疑豫。已外瓷瓦瓶罐，例上大小重輕。

Regarding the above section, if one relies on the Vinaya text, they are universally gathered under heavy property. Why is this? Because their substance and characteristics are both heavy, they were judged based on the majority. However, utensils such as jars and basins are essential conditions supporting the Way, and by principle they should properly be classified as light property. They are unlike staves and fans, where large and small are universally regulated, their use is limited to specific times, and they can only be kept and used after additional sacred rites. Jars and basins are not like that: carried on the person for washing and rinsing, cleansing impurities and bathing, they are constantly needed whenever matters arise; by meaning they must be gathered under light property, with no reason to be classified as heavy property. Furthermore, when the various schools are cross-referenced, the majority consider them not heavy. Thus the Mahīśāsaka says: 'Except for earthenware washing basins, which are permitted to be distributed, the rest should not be distributed.' This directly judges them as classified as light property. If one harmonizes the accounts according to measure, when the Vinaya text classifies them as heavy property, it speaks in terms of large jars. Thus the Sarvāstivāda says: 'Copper or earthenware washing basins holding two dou or less are classified as light property.' This is then glaringly obvious and universally understood. Past transmissions have all relied on the Vinaya's judgment, with the idea that since they support the body and maintain the Way, are essential tasks constantly needed and perpetually used, and moreover are prescribed to be carried along with oneself, they are therefore light property. Furthermore, the various Vinayas make explicit judgments; we do not dare to assess this arbitrarily. Thus in the Mahāsāṃghika, after a newly ordained monk has received full ordination, he is ordered to keep a washing basin that conforms to the Dharma to carry with him. It is clearly known that large ones are not according to the Dharma and cannot be carried along the Way; those judged as heavy property in accordance with the Vinaya text refer to these. Moreover, items such as razors and pātras are inherently heavy, but because they provide deep support and are precisely essential in conditions, they are all judged to be light property. Jars and basins are even more urgently needed than these, so in meaning they cannot be subsumed under heavy property. Therefore, by broadly mastering the different schools and precisely refining what is right and wrong, being both broad and precise, there is no hesitation in the matter. Other jars and basins of porcelain or earthenware are judged as heavy or light by analogy with the sizes above.