法華經義記 3.18

3.18

Someone interprets: “Using these four and a half stanzas to versify the above ‘The Buddha preached the principle of one liberation’ and ‘we also attained this dharma and arrived at nirvāṇa,’ the phrasing is quite similar.” My view is that it is not so. How is this known? In the preceding prose, it was the scripture-compiler narrating that the assembly of that time had this doubt; how could Śāriputra versify the scripture-compiler’s intent? Thus we know they are simply verses of direct statement.