四分戒本疏卷第一．第二．第三 3.90

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若比丘食家中有寶在屏處坐者波逸提　文有四句。一者犯人。二食家有寶。三屏處。四結犯。辨相文中前二後一可知。三言屏處者。若樹牆壁籬柵。若衣及餘物障。故名屏處。此中犯者。謂夫主不在。獨與其妻屏坐故犯提。多論云。閉戶無淨人提。開戶外有淨人吉。戶內有淨人不犯。祇云。若母姊妹。若大小淨人。睡眠癡狂嬰兒雖有。是人名獨不堪為證故同犯位。若淨人作務來註不斷。若閣上閣下淨人看見者不犯開緣如前戒。

"If a bhikṣu, in an eating-family that possesses treasure, sits in a screened place, it is a prāyaścittika." The text has four clauses: first, the offender; second, the eating-family possesses treasure; third, the screened place; fourth, establishing the offense. In the text defining the marks, the first two and the last one are understood. Third, regarding "screened place": if it is screened by trees, walls, fences, palisades, garments, or other objects, it is therefore called a screened place. The offense here means that when the husband is absent, he sits alone with the wife in a screened place, and therefore commits a prāyaścittika. The Sarvāstivāda-vinaya-vibhāṣā says, "If the door is closed and there is no attendant (kappiyakāraka), it is a prāyaścittika. If the door is open and an attendant is outside, it is a duṣkṛta. If an attendant is inside the door, there is no offense." The Mahāsāṃghika Vinaya says, "Even if a mother, sister, older or younger attendant, or a sleeping, insane, or infant person is present, such a person is termed solitary and incapable of acting as a witness, so it falls into the same category of offense. If an attendant is continuously going back and forth while working, or if an attendant upstairs or downstairs can see them, there is no offense." The circumstances of exception are as in the preceding precept.