[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) › [四分戒本疏卷第一．第二．第三](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2787) › 2.56 # 四分戒本疏卷第一．第二．第三 2.56 四分戒本疏卷第一．第二．第三 2.56 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2787.2.56) 若比丘二居士居士婦與比丘辦價持如是價買如是衣與其甲是比丘先不受居士自恣請到二居士家作如是語善哉居士為我辦如是衣價與我共作一衣為好故若得衣者尼薩耆波逸提　此戒句亦有四　一犯人。二施衣服定。三是比丘下嫌少勸增。四若得衣下得而結罪。釋句之義如前戒。五分乃至勸夫婦合作一衣亦犯。祇中知足者與細言。我是蘭若頭陀住人索麁者皆犯。己口自述德故　問。所以無勸三居士者何　答。勸二容損。勸三惱微故無　問。若爾勸三居士棄布造紬。豈無損義　答。此乞衣戒攝。今此勸增者要就本體上增方犯。此戒故所已無開通。並如前戒。 > "If a bhikṣu, when two householders or householders' wives prepare a price for the bhikṣu, \[intending to\] take such a price, buy such a robe, and give it to so-and-so; and this bhikṣu, without previously having received an open invitation from the householders, goes to the homes of the two householders and speaks thus: 'Excellent, householders! Prepare such a price of a robe for me, and together make one robe for me, so that it will be good \[quality\]'; if he obtains the robe, it is a niḥsargika-prāyaścittika." This precept also has four clauses: 1. The offender; 2. The determination of the offering of robes; 3. 'This bhikṣu', down to disdaining it as too little and encouraging them to increase it; 4. 'If he obtains the robe', down to the conclusion of the offense upon acquisition. The explanation of the clauses is as in the previous precept. The Mahīśāsaka Vinaya states that even encouraging a husband and wife to join together to make one robe constitutes an offense. In the Mahāsāṃghika Vinaya, if one who is content is offered fine cloth and says, "I am a forest-dweller who observes dhūta practices," and demands coarse cloth, all such cases constitute an offense, because one's own mouth recounts one's own virtues. Question: Why is there no \[precept against\] encouraging three householders? Answer: Encouraging two can cause harm; encouraging three causes slight annoyance, so there is none. Question: If so, if one encourages three householders to discard cotton cloth and make silk, is there no meaning of harm? Answer: This is subsumed under the precept on begging for robes. Now, this encouragement to increase must be an increase upon the original substance itself to constitute an offense. Therefore, the exceptions and permissions for this precept are entirely as in the previous precept. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2787.2.55) - [Next: 2.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2787.2.57) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2787.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2787~en-mt.2.56) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (5) - [四分律](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.vinaya.other-vinayas.dharmaguptaka*zh-buddhayasas.7.37) — Classical Chinese - [四分律比丘含注戒本](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1806.1.427) — Classical Chinese - [四分比丘尼戒本](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.vinaya.sastra.dharmaguptakabhiksunipratimoksasutra*zh-buddhayasas.1.55) — Classical Chinese - [四分律比丘戒本](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.vinaya.pratimoksa.dharmaguptaka*zh-buddhayasas.1.53) — Classical Chinese - [四分僧戒本](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.vinaya.sastra.dharmaguptakapratimoksasutra*zh-buddhayasas.1.36) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2787.2.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2787.2.56) · Pramāṇa