法華義疏 2.416

2.416

「佛未出家時」下，第二、頌《法華》已去事。長行有二：一、明法華事；二、明涅槃。今還頌此二也。長行序有六，今但頌五：初一行頌眾集序；次一行頌說經序；次一行頌入定序；「天雨曼陀華」下，頌現瑞序。長行為四：一、雨華動地；二、時眾覩瑞；三、現光瑞；四、覩光瑞。蓋是兩感兩應以相著也。今偈中轉勢頌之：三瑞並是能化事，故為一類；二覩瑞是所化事，復為一類，故以能所為一類也。一行頌雨華瑞，半行頌動地瑞，一行半頌放光瑞。「諸天龍鬼神供養人中尊」者，長行直明雨華，今釋雨華所由，謂諸天供養佛也。

From "When the Buddha had not yet left household life" onward is, secondly, versifying the events after the Lotus [Sūtra]. The prose has two [parts]: first, clarifying the Lotus [Sūtra] events; second, clarifying the nirvāṇa. Here it again versifies these two. The prose introduction has six [parts], but here only five are versified: the first full verse versifies the assembly-gathering introduction; the next full verse versifies the sūtra-preaching introduction; the next full verse versifies the entering-samādhi introduction; from "The heavens rained māndārava flowers" onward versifies the manifesting-auspicious-signs introduction. The prose constitutes four [items]: 1. raining flowers and quaking the earth; 2. the assembly witnessing the auspicious signs; 3. manifesting the auspicious sign of light; 4. witnessing the auspicious sign of light. These are indeed two stimulations and two responses matching one another. Now the verses alter their approach in versifying them: the three auspicious signs are all matters of the one who transforms, so they are made one category; the two witnessings of the signs are matters of those who are transformed, again made one category; hence they are categorized according to the active and the passive. One full verse versifies the sign of raining flowers, half a verse versifies the sign of quaking the earth, and one and a half verses versify the sign of emitting light. "All the devas, dragons, ghosts, and spirits make offerings to the Honoured One among humans": whereas the prose directly clarified the raining of flowers, this now explains the cause of the raining of flowers, meaning that the devas make offerings to the Buddha.