法華義疏 1.397

1.397

「佉羅騫太」者，此云廣肩甲，又云寶錦，又云欲錦也。「毘摩質多羅」者，此云響高，以其於大水中出大音聲，自唱言我是毘摩質多羅，故云響高。亦云種種疑，又云穴居者，最是海下住也。故修羅有二處住：一者、地上，眾相山中其力最劣，次在須彌山北入海一萬二千由旬有羅睺阿修羅王，領無量阿修羅眾，次羅睺下復一萬二千由旬有修羅名勇健，勇健下一萬二千由旬有修羅名美鬘，美鬘下一萬二千由旬有修羅名毘摩質多，故稱穴居也。《阿含經》云「光音天入海水，精流水內遂成一卵，經八千歲生女修羅，身若須彌千頭少一，水觸女身生毘摩質多，形四倍大母，九頭八脚千手少一，納香山揵撻婆女生舍脂也。」

"Kharaskandha": here translated as "Broad Shoulders", also called "Jeweled Brocade", and also called "Desire Brocade". "Vimacitra": here translated as "Loud Echo", because he uttered a great sound in the great waters and proclaimed of himself, 'I am Vimacitra'; hence called "Loud Echo". It is also called "Various Doubts", and also called "Cave Dweller", for he dwells in the deepest part beneath the sea. Thus asuras have two dwelling places: first, on the ground, in the Mount of Many Marks, where their power is the weakest; next, entering the sea twelve thousand yojanas north of Mount Sumeru, there is the Asura King Rāhu, who leads an immeasurable multitude of asuras; next, twelve thousand yojanas below Rāhu, there is an asura named Valiant; twelve thousand yojanas below Valiant, there is an asura named Fine Garland; twelve thousand yojanas below Fine Garland, there is an asura named Vimacitra; hence they are called cave dwellers. The Āgama Sūtras say: "The gods of the Ābhāsvara Heaven entered the seawater, and their semen flowed into the water, subsequently forming an egg; after eight thousand years an asura female was born, her body like Sumeru, with one less than a thousand heads. Water touched the female's body and gave birth to Vimacitra, whose form was four times larger than his mother's, with nine heads, eight legs, and one less than a thousand arms; he married a gandharva woman of the Fragrant Mountain and fathered Śacī."