釋氏要覽 1.291

1.291

梵音鉢吒。唐言縵條。即是一幅㲲量以。三衣等。但無田相者是（西國㲲幅只闊故）。自佛法至漢。涉一百八十七年。凡出家者。未識割截法只著此衣。

The Sanskrit sound is paṭa, which means plain strip in Chinese; that is, a single piece of cotton cloth measured to equal the three robes, but without the field marks (the width of cotton cloth in the western countries is quite broad). From the arrival of the Buddha's Dharma until the Han dynasty, spanning one hundred and eighty-seven years, all who renounced household life did not know the method of cutting into strips, and wore only this robe.