妙法蓮華經玄贊 6.100

6.100

贊曰。此有三嚴：七雜嚴，眾綵等是。八茵蓐，《說文》「車中重廗」，即長行「綩莚」也。《切韻》云「茵者褥也」。蓐者草褥，褥作草華之文。或以草為褥名為茵蓐。有作「裀」者，《玉篇》「衣身也」。若作「鞇」，虎皮也。《釋名》云「文鞇，車中所以坐者，用虎皮為之，有文綵，因以下輿相連著」。「蓐」三蒼「薦」也，應作「茵蓐」字。「繒」通五色綾錦之屬。「纊」者軟綿之類。將此綾錦、軟綿之類作其茵蓐，故知蓐作草華之文。九䨱葩，即替丹枕。長行取滅定，倚息疲倦；此取善巧，智用遍在淨命茵蓐之上，故喻䨱癿。所望別故亦不相違，此有六德：一神用無方名上妙。二微密難知名細。三積功累行用因華作，脩習所成名㲲。「㲲」音徒協反，《切韻》「細毛布也」。今謂不然，別有㲲華織以為布，今白㲲是，毛作者褐也。四逈過一初神德難思名價直千億。五自性澄皎名鮮白。六體離二障名淨潔。以上六德後智妙用，遍被淨命之中，名䨱褥上。

Commentary: Here there are three adornments: 7. variegated adornments, such as the multi-colored silk; 8. cushions: the *Shuowen* states: "Layered mats inside a cart," which is the "*wǎnyán*" (綩莚) of the prose passage. The *Qieyun* states: "*Yīn* means cushion." *Rù* is a grass mat, and cushions are made with patterns of grass and flowers. Or, taking grass as a mat is called *yīnrù*. Some write "裀"; the *Yupian* states: "Garments covering the body." If written "鞇", it is tiger skin; the *Shiming* states: "Patterned *yīn*, that which is used to sit on in a cart, is made of tiger skin, having patterned colors, attached together below the carriage." For *rù*, the *Sancang* states: "Mattress"; it should be written with the characters "茵蓐". "*Zēng*" covers five-colored brocades, damasks, and the like. "*Kuàng*" refers to soft cotton wool and the like. Using such brocades and soft wool to make the cushions, we know the cushion is made with patterns of grass and flowers. 9. Coverlet flowers, which are the red bolster pillows. In the prose text, this represents the cessation absorption (nirodha-samāpatti), leaning upon it to rest from fatigue; here it represents skillful means, where the application of wisdom pervades above the cushion of pure livelihood, thus symbolized by coverlet cloths. Because the perspectives differ, they do not contradict each other. This has six virtues: 1. spiritual applications without boundary, termed "supreme and wondrous"; 2. subtle, esoteric, and difficult to know, termed "fine"; 3. having accumulated merit and deeds, made using flowers of causes, accomplished through practice, it is called fine cotton cloth (*dié*). "*Dié*" (㲲) is pronounced *dié* [tú-xié fan]; the *Qieyun* states: "Fine woolen cloth." Now I say this is not so: there is a separate cotton flower woven into cloth, which is today's white cotton cloth; that made from animal hair is coarse serge (*hè*); 4. far surpassing the beginning stage, its spiritual virtues inconceivable, termed "valued at thousands of myriads"; 5. its intrinsic nature is clear and shining, termed "bright white"; 6. its substance is free from the two obscurations, termed "pure and immaculate." The wondrous applications of subsequent wisdom endowed with the six virtues above, completely covering pure livelihood, are called "covering over the cushion."