四分戒本疏卷第一．第二．第三 2.95

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The Precept on Spending Six Nights Away from One's Robes in a Perilous Āraṇya (the twenty-ninth). The similarities and differences of this precept have already been distinguished above. However, for the former precept, staying overnight in a village immediately incurs an offense on the very first night; in this perilous āraṇya, an offense is incurred only after exceeding six nights. The former applies to ordinary persons with the permission of the virtue robe (kaṭhina); this one involves perils and furthermore combines with superior conduct, where one does not receive the virtue robe, but only has the kaṭhina season; because it is not formally made, there are these two permitted limits. There are seven specific conditions: first, resolving upon and holding the three robes; second, the non-season of the winter division—therefore the Vinaya states: after the three months of summer have finished and the kaṭhina month is full; third, having an extremely terrifying place; fourth, leaving the robe in a village; fifth, not relinquishing it through gathering; sixth, lacking a justifying circumstance; seventh, when the break of dawn appears on the seventh day, the offense is incurred. The following directly explains the precept text. This arose because the group of six bhikṣus deposited their robes and went traveling, and their companions pointed out their fault; the Buddha then formulated the precept.