仁王護國般若波羅蜜多經疏 3.375

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The commentary explains: Regarding "for the benefit of sentient beings, they practice all crafts and arts": this marks the benefiting of others. Crafts, professions, and arts are undistinguished in their presence or absence. "Scripts" refers to writing and record-keeping. "Medicine" refers to healing and treating. "Eulogies" refers to literary compositions. "Humor" refers to songs and musical entertainment. "Craftsmanship" refers to engraving and carving, and so on. "Incantations" refers to arts of concealment, appearance, and so forth. "Heterodox treatises of non-Buddhists" refers to the sixteen heterodox treatises. Regarding "divination of auspicious and inauspicious portents": divination refers to yarrow and turtle-shell divination, and observing portents refers to examining appearances or signs; whether through dreams or celestial constellations, they are skilled in divination and physiognomy, able to know good and bad fortune without error. From here onward is the second [part], explaining the directing toward bodhi.