四分戒本疏卷第一．第二．第三 2.44

2.44

"If a bhikṣu's robes are completed, the kaṭhina robes have been removed: if a bhikṣu obtains an out-of-season robe, and desiring it, receives it; having received it, he should quickly complete the robe. If it is sufficient, it is good; if it is insufficient, he may keep it for one month in order to complete it. If he keeps it beyond that, it is a niḥsargika-prāyaścittika." The root text of this complete precept has six phrases: first, the person who offends; second, excepting the circumstances of exception, indicating the time period for committing [an offense with] an extra [robe]; third, from 'if a bhikṣu' downward, the category of robe obtained; fourth, from 'having received it, quickly' downward, if it is sufficient, no exception is permitted; fifth, from 'if it is insufficient' downward, if it is not yet complete because it is insufficient, an exception is permitted for up to one month; sixth, from 'if he keeps it beyond that' downward, establishing the offense in accordance with contravention. Below, these are explained separately. As for 'if a bhikṣu': the meaning is as explained above. 'Robes are completed, the kaṭhina robes have been removed': this clarifies the time for committing [an offense with] an extra [robe]. One month after the pavāraṇā, or within five months, is the time period of non-offense. As for 'obtains an out-of-season robe': this clarifies the category of robe obtained. 'Out-of-season' refers to the time exceeding the limits of one month or five months. What is said in the fourth phrase, 'having received it, quickly complete': this clarifies the limit for an offense. If within ten days matching cloth is sufficient, one cuts, sews, performs spoken purification, and receives it; if not, then upon the eleventh day, depending on whether there are few or many robes, all incur a niḥsargika-prāyaścittika. The fifth phrase states: 'If it is insufficient, he may keep it for one month in order to complete it': this clarifies the second offense. If matching cloth is insufficient, upon reaching the eleventh day, one should make the robe, wash, dye, and render it permissible, and then receive it; if one fears it will not be completed, one roughly stitches and completes it to receive it, and later embroiders it finely, thereby avoiding the offense of an extra [robe]. If one intentionally contravenes, upon reaching the twelfth day, depending on whether there are few or many robes, all incur an offense; and so on up to the twenty-ninth day, it is also like this. If one reaches the thirtieth day, whether it is sufficient or insufficient, whether it is matching cloth or not matching cloth, on that very day one should cut, sew, dye, and receive it; if one fears it cannot be completed, others should assist him so as to avoid committing an offense. This precept's permitted limits are three: for the first ten days, it is the same as the ordinary permitted circumstances, completely without offense; second, from after the tenth day up to the twenty-ninth day, whichever day it becomes sufficient, on that very day one must make it and perform spoken purification; third, reaching the thirtieth day, whether sufficient or insufficient, whether matching or not matching, no exception is permitted whatsoever. The sixth phrase, 'if he keeps it beyond that, it is a niḥsargika-prāyaścittika', is establishing the offense according to contravention. Within the offense there are four: first, forfeiting the offending robe; second, repenting the offense committed; third, returning the original robe; fourth, establishing the offense for not returning it. In non-offenses, the meaning is like the exceptions for an extra robe.