仁王護國般若波羅蜜多經疏 3.576

3.576

解曰：阿字者上聲呼也，此翻為無。然梵本中作此阿字，為隨聲便作惡字呼，經上惡字即此阿字也。乞叉野者，此翻云盡也。句勢者，此翻為藏，即前智燈為無盡藏也。《瑜伽》釋云「阿字為種子。種子有二義：一者引生、二者攝持。」至下當悉。言阿字者，詮一切法本不生義。然此阿字是諸字母，能生一切字也。若得阿字門瑜伽相應，則得諸佛無盡法藏，則悟諸法本來不生，由如虛空一相清淨平等無二，即是根本無分別智。從此第二明得後句。

Explanation: The syllable "a" is pronounced in the falling tone; here it is translated as "non-". In the Sanskrit text it is written as this syllable "a"; to follow phonetic convenience it is pronounced as the syllable "e", and the syllable "e" above in the sūtra is just this syllable "a". "Kṣaya"; here it is translated as "exhaustion". "Kośe"; here it is translated as "treasury"; that is, the preceding lamp of cognition is the inexhaustible treasury. The Yoga commentary says: "The syllable 'a' is the seed-syllable. A seed-syllable has two meanings: first, to bring forth; second, to contain and uphold." This will be explained in full below. The syllable "a" expresses the meaning that all phenomena are fundamentally non-arisen. This syllable "a" is the mother of all syllables, capable of producing all syllables. If one attains yoga correspondence with the syllable "a" gate, one then attains the inexhaustible Dharma treasury of all buddhas, and realizes that all phenomena are fundamentally non-arisen, like empty space with one single characteristic, pure, equal, and non-dual; this is the fundamental nirvikalpa-jñāna. From here, the second [part] explains the phrase on attaining the subsequent [cognition].