妙法蓮華經文句 7.9

7.9

From "At that time, countless myriads of kinds" up to "and listened to the Dharma": here is the third [part], matching the first [element] above, the parable of the mountains and rivers. Gathering retribution results in sentient beings, just as relying on mountains and rivers results in worlds and so forth. "Hundreds of thousands of myriads of koṭis" refers to the sentient beings of the ten dharma realms. Now it directly speaks of the differences among the sentient beings of the seven expedients, correlated as stated above. Or, from "You devas and humans" onward, all matches the parable of the mountains and rivers.