法華文句記 1.20

1.20

言「義類同者」，諸品咸然。聚者是誰，故出其人。初汎指他經，如〈心地品〉佛自唱也。如《大論》者，即論所述《大品》一部。結集之家本唯三品：一序，二魔事，三囑累。言「譯人」者，亦指《大品》本唯三品，什公偽秦弘始五年四月二十三日譯訖，乃依四意以類加之，成九十品，謂人義法事。人如樓那，義如觀空，法如三假，事如魔事，亦如《大經》純陀哀歎等。又非譯者但補助譯人，即謝公加也。準知諸經非佛自唱，及以集者並譯人添也。次正出今經。如〈藥王品〉云：「佛告宿王華，若有人聞是藥王菩薩本事品，能隨喜讚善者」等。又云：「宿王華！以此藥王菩薩本事品，囑累於汝。」乃至云：「若有女人持是品者，盡是女身後不復受。」〈妙音品〉末集經家云：「說是妙音來往品時，四萬二千天子得無生法忍。」〈普門品〉末經家亦云：「佛說是普門品時，八萬四千眾生，皆發無等等阿耨菩提。」乃至〈陀羅尼〉、〈嚴王勸發品〉末皆然，故云等。

Regarding the statement that 'their categories of meaning are identical', all chapters are like this. As for who gathered them, their person is therefore indicated. First, other sūtras are generally cited, as in the 'Mind Ground Chapter', which the Buddha himself proclaimed. As for [the reference to] the Great Commentary (*Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa*), this refers to the single work of the *Large Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra* recounted in the commentary. The compilers originally had only three chapters: first, the preface; second, the deeds of Māra; and third, the entrustment. The phrase 'the translator' also refers to the *Large Sūtra* originally having only three chapters; when the Venerable Kumārajīva finished translating it on the twenty-third day of the fourth month in the fifth year of the Hongshi era of the illegitimate Qin, he added [chapters] according to four considerations and categorized them into ninety chapters, namely: persons, meanings, dharmas, and events. 'Person' is like Pūrṇa; 'meaning' is like contemplating emptiness; 'dharma' is like the three designations; 'event' is like the deeds of Māra; and it is also like Cunda's lamentations in the *Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra*. Furthermore, it was not only the translator, but also an assistant to the translator—namely, Lord Xie who made additions. One may understand by analogy that [the chapters of] the various sūtras were either not proclaimed by the Buddha himself, or added by the compilers and translators. Next, the present sūtra is properly cited. As the 'Medicine King Chapter' says: 'The Buddha addressed Star King Flower: If there is someone who hears this Chapter on the Former Deeds of Medicine King Bodhisattva and can rejoice in accord and praise its goodness,' and so forth. It also says: 'Star King Flower! With this Chapter on the Former Deeds of Medicine King Bodhisattva, I entrust it to you.' Down to saying: 'If there is a woman who upholds this chapter, after this female body is exhausted, she will never again receive one.' At the end of the 'Gadgadasvara Chapter', the compilers of the sūtra state: 'When this Chapter on the Coming and Going of Gadgadasvara was spoken, forty-two thousand sons of heaven attained the acceptance of the non-arising of dharmas.' At the end of the 'Universal Gate Chapter', the compilers also state: 'When the Buddha preached this Universal Gate Chapter, eighty-four thousand sentient beings all generated the aspiration for peerless anuttara-samyak-saṃbodhi.' Down to the ends of the 'Dhāraṇī' and 'Encouragement of King Subhavyūha' chapters, it is the same in every case; hence it says 'and so forth.'