分別功德論 4.12

4.12

The reason why Śāriputra is declared foremost in wisdom is that the World-Honoured One also said: 'If one wished to know the extent of Śāriputra's wisdom, taking Mount Sumeru as the inkstone, the waters of the four great oceans as the ink water, the bamboo and trees of the four continents as brushes, and all the people filling them as scribes, even if they wished to write down Śāriputra's wisdom, they still could not exhaust it—how much less could an ordinary person with the five supernormal faculties fathom it?' Therefore, he is declared foremost in wisdom.