འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱ་རང་བཞན་མཉམ་པ་ཉད་རྣམ་པར་སྤྲས་པ་ཏང་ང་འཛན་གྱ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 7.24

7.24

“The discernment of definitions is delight⁸³⁴ in the knowledge of phenomena.

“Young man, the discernment of eloquence is teaching terminology, explaining, expounding,⁸³⁵ clarifying,⁸³⁶ disseminating,⁸³⁷ analyzing, differentiating, proclaiming,⁸³⁸ having unimpeded speech, having unalloyed⁸³⁹ speech, not being mute,⁸⁴⁰ not stammering,⁸⁴¹ and speaking without loss of confidence in relation to the knowledge of phenomena.”

Thereupon the Bhagavān spoke these verses:

“As numerous as are the knowledges of the Buddha,
There are that many designations for forms.
As numerous as are the designations for forms,
There are that many appellations of forms.⁸⁴² {1}

“As numerous as are the appellations of forms,
There are that many names for conduct.
As numerous as are the names for conduct,
There are that many names of buddhas. {2}

“As numerous as are the names of buddhas,
There are that many names of beings.
I know⁸⁴³ whatever number of names
Even one single being has. {3}

“The names for conduct, names of buddhas,
And names of beings are equal
To the infinity of names and appellations
That I have previously taught. {4}

“As numerous as are the faults in the composite,
There are that many qualities⁸⁴⁴ in nirvāṇa.
I have taught as many analogies
As there are qualities of the buddhas. {5}

“As numerous as are the motivations
That I have taught beings to have,
There are that many light rays
From a single hair of a Lord of the World. {6}

“As numerous as are the names
And aspirations of all beings,
A lord of humans has even more
Qualities of the aspects of his speech. {7}

“The names of all beings that have been taught
To be those of one being
Are the names of one being
That have been taught to be those of all beings. {8}

“The Buddha has taught
This engagement with discernment.⁸⁴⁵
Infinite names have been taught
For the sake of the bodhisattvas. {9}

“Those who wish to teach in some way
The endless millions of sūtras