妙法蓮華經玄贊 4.88

4.88

贊曰：下第二段一百一十一頌，頌與授記。長行有六，今亦分六：初六頌頌說，次七頌半頌令住，次一頌半頌遮，次十八頌半頌依何等義，次七十頌半頌依法，後七頌頌未聞令聞。於六不同中前後不同，故頌曰：「六說七半住，　次一頌半遮，　十八半何等，　七十半七二。」初六頌說中分二：初四頌半頌「所以者何」下釋文，後一頌半頌前標中「隨宜所說意趣難解」。初中復三：一頌頌「無數方便」，二頌頌「種種因緣譬喻言詞」，即譬喻、因緣、念觀、方便也。一頌半頌「演說諸法」。此初也。前長行中標云「諸佛隨宜所說」，釋中云「我以無數方便」，今此頌釋云「諸佛所得法無量方便力」者，前後影彰、他自互顯，亦不相違。

The Eulogy says: Below, the second section of one hundred and eleven verses versifies the granting of prophecy. The prose had six [parts], and now it is also divided into six: the first six verses versify teaching; the next seven and a half verses versify causing to abide; the next one and a half verses versify prohibiting; the next eighteen and a half verses versify relying on what meaning; the next seventy and a half verses versify relying on the Dharma; the last seven verses versify causing those who have not heard to hear. Among these six differences, they differ before and after; thus the verse says: 'Six teach, seven and a half abide, / next one and a half prohibit, / eighteen and a half what kind, / seventy and a half, seven [and] two.' In the first six verses on teaching, there are two parts: the first four and a half verses versify the explanatory text below 'Why is that?'; the latter one and a half verses versify 'spoken in accordance with appropriateness, the purport is difficult to understand' in the preceding introductory statement. In the first part, there are again three: one verse versifies 'countless expedient means'; two verses versify 'various causes, conditions, metaphors, and expressions'—namely, metaphors, causes and conditions, mindful observations, and expedient means; one and a half verses versify 'proclaiming all dharmas.' This is the first. In the preceding prose, the introductory statement said, 'that which is spoken by the buddhas in accordance with appropriateness,' and in the explanation it said, 'I, with countless expedient means'; now this verse explains, 'The dharmas attained by the buddhas / and the power of immeasurable expedient means'—the earlier and later shadow and illuminate each other, and other and self mutually reveal each other, also without contradiction.