[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [弘明集](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102) › 4.31 # 弘明集 4.31 弘明集 4.31 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [4.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102.4.31) 答曰。市庖之外云云。夫禋瘞繭栗宗社三牲。曉薌豆爼以供賓客。七十之老俟肉而飽。豈得唯陳草石取備上藥而已。所憂不立者非謂洪論難持。退兼此事不可頓去於世耳。 > Reply: You say: 'Outside the market kitchens,' and so forth. Offering purified sacrifices and buried offerings, calves with horns like cocoon-chestnuts, and the three victims for the ancestral temple and altars of soil and grain; offering fragrant bean-platters and meat-stands to supply guests; elders of seventy waiting for meat to be satisfied—how could one only lay out grass and stones and procure superior medicines? What I worry cannot be established is not to say that the grand thesis is hard to maintain, but rather, stepping back, I suspect this matter cannot be abruptly eliminated from the world. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 4.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102.4.30) - [Next: 4.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102.4.32) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102.4) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102~en-mt.4.31) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102.4.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102.4.31) · Pramāṇa