量處輕重儀 2.7

2.7

The above item in meaning pertains to both heavy and light property. If it is material such as plain cloth or silk up to silk floss and cotton batting, as long as it does not have distinct variegated colors, it enters into distribution. If it is brocade, embroidery, or woolen rugs, but of a single pure color and in appearance reduced from a Dharma robe, it is distributed as light property as above. If dyed with the five great colors—blue/green, yellow, red, white, and black—or dyed with superior colors such as crimson, cyan, pink, green, or purple, regardless of whether it is much or little, light or heavy, it all follows clothing material and enters into distribution. If patched with squares, tiger-eyes, betel-nut patterns, or intermingled with various colors, it is classified as heavy property. Therefore, in the Mahīśāsaka, brocade, patterned damask, woolen rugs, or felts (referring to those whose width and length are as large as described above) and mosquito nets enter into heavy property. Furthermore, they are unlike patterned silk and gauze fabrics, which, although the fabric weave is interlaced, have pure and uniform colors; hence the Vinaya permits the wearing of clothing with fine goose-pattern weaves. By meaning and analogy, patterned silk and gauze woven on the loom enter into light property; the Vinaya permits receiving highly valuable robes from kings and various fine robes, and also permits highly valuable thin robes; thus one knows that fabrics of thin silk, kudzu, and the like are distributed by analogy.