妙法蓮華經玄贊 3.73

3.73

贊曰：下三頌半菩薩不知。中分二：初二頌半凡菩薩不知，一頌十地上聖亦不能知。此初也。新發意菩薩具六種德：一親近、二達義、三善說、四數眾、五一心、六長時，測度亦復不知。「剎」梵云剎多羅，此云田，田土也。有云國亦云土，義譯之耳。字書本無此字，《說文》作㓼，楚乙反，刀割物聲，黍音七聲也。

The Eulogy states: The subsequent three and a half verses concern what bodhisattvas do not know. This is divided into two parts: first, two and a half verses concern what ordinary bodhisattvas do not know; one verse concerns what the noble sages on the ten bhūmis also cannot know. This is the first. Newly resolved bodhisattvas possess six virtues: first, drawing near; second, penetrating the meaning; third, preaching well; fourth, having numerous assemblies; fifth, single-mindedness; and sixth, long duration; yet calculating and deliberating, they also do not know. *Kṣetra* is called *kṣetra* in Sanskrit, rendered here as 'field'—that is, field and land. Some render it 'country' and also 'land', which are semantic translations. The character was originally absent in dictionaries; the *Shuowen* writes it as 㓼, *chu* + *yi* in fanqie, the sound of a knife cutting something, the sound of millet falling, with the sound of *qi*.