[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) › 2.89 # 四分戒本疏卷第一．第二．第三 2.89 四分戒本疏卷第一．第二．第三 2.89 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.89](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2787.2.89) 畜藥過七日戒二十六　一制意者。凡夫之背以四大為驅憂。末秋初節氣交競四大轉改諸病即生。既有疾惱。防癈修道。大聖愍念。方便開聽畜。服諸藥以療病苦。趣令安身。進修道業。因聖開聽。廣貯眾藥。長貪壞行。違教招譏過。是不輕故制提罪　二釋名者。貯用屬己名之為畜。療患稱藥越於期限名過七日。故曰畜藥過七日戒　三具緣通緣如上。別緣有四。一是七日藥。二加手口二受。三不說淨。四畜過七日便犯　四闕緣類知。已下正明戒本。此戒因畢陵加弟子起過。故佛制戒。 > Precept 26: Storing medicine for more than seven days. 1. Intent of the formulation: The back of an ordinary worldling is driven and troubled by the four great elements. At the end of autumn and the beginning \[of winter\], when the seasonal energies contend and the four great elements shift, various illnesses immediately arise. Since there is affliction and illness, preventing and abandoning the cultivation of the Path, the Great Sage took pity and skillfully allowed the retention and consumption of various medicines to treat the suffering of illness, aiming to bring ease to the body and advance the practice of the Path. Because the Sage allowed it, monks extensively hoarded numerous medicines, which increased greed, ruined practice, transgressed the teachings, and brought ridicule; the fault being not light, the prāyaścittika offense was formulated. 2. Explanation of the name: Storing for use belonging to oneself is named "storing" (possessing); curing ailments is called "medicine"; exceeding the time limit is called "more than seven days." Hence it is called the precept against storing medicine for more than seven days. 3. Complete conditions: The general conditions are as above; the specific conditions are four: 1. it is a seven-day medicine; 2. adding the two receipts by hand and mouth; 3. not declaring it pure; 4. possessing it for more than seven days, whereupon the offense is committed. 4. Deficient conditions can be known by category. Below, the prātimokṣa text is properly clarified. This precept arose from a disciple of Pilindavatsa, for which the Buddha formulated the precept. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.88](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2787.2.88) - [Next: 2.90](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2787.2.90) - [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.2.89) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2787.2.89](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2787.2.89) · Pramāṇa