妙法蓮華經玄贊 6.196

6.196

贊曰。下第二段有十頌半，受畜生報。有四：初三頌半受狗野干果，二頌受駝驢果，二頌受野干果，三頌受蟒身果。此初也。「畜」音丑救反，六畜也。又許救反，養也。許郁、丑六二反，聚也。今從初二。大乘一業能感多果，從初為名，皆彼果故。此中言「從地獄出當墮畜生」等，下准此知。「𩑔」音苦骨反，三蒼頭禿無毛。《通俗文》、《切韻》「白禿也，音同窟」。又𩑔瘦者，皮肉乾枯之貌。下有枯竭，故前釋善。今此「𩑔」字，或讀作五鎋反，應為髻字，仍未詳音。「梨」音力脂反，《方言》「面似凍梨」。有作「黧」字，《玉篇》「力奚反，黑也、老也」。《字林》「黑黃也」。《通俗文》「斑黑曰黧」。或作「梨」字，亦色斑駁也。全黑為黮。「黮」有二音，一徒感反，與𧝓同，𮪓黮色。又他感反，桑之葚之色也。若青黑色作「黤」，於檻反。「嬈」音奴了反，惱也。戲相擾作嬲。擾亂作嫪，奴巧反，《玉篇》「嬈或作擾音，戲弄也」。狗有十果：一𩑔；二瘦；三色黧黮；四疥癩；五觸嬈，嬈打惱也；六人所惡賤，「惡」音惡故反；七常困飢渴；八骨肉枯竭；九生被楚毒；十死被瓦石。此等惡果各應說因之所招感，恐繁故止。

The commentary: The second section below has ten and a half verses on receiving retribution as beasts. It has four [parts]: first, three and a half verses on receiving the retribution of dogs and jackals; second, two verses on receiving the retribution of camels and donkeys; third, two verses on receiving the retribution of jackals; fourth, three verses on receiving the retribution of a python's body. This is the first. The character 畜 is pronounced chou-jiu fan, meaning the six domestic beasts; also xu-jiu fan, meaning to rear; or xu-yu or chou-liu, meaning to gather. Here it follows the first two. In the Mahāyāna, a single karma can bring about multiple fruits, named after the initial one, since all are its fruit. Here it says: "Emerging from hell, they will fall among beasts," etc.; what follows should be understood accordingly. The character 𩑔 is pronounced ku-gu fan: in the San Cang it means bald-headed and hairless. The Tongsuwen and Qieyun say: "White scabby baldness, pronounced the same as 窟 [ku]." Furthermore, 𩑔-thin means the appearance of dried, withered skin and flesh. Later there is "withered and desiccated," so the former explanation is good. Now for this character 𩑔, some read it as wu-xia fan, meaning it should be the character 髻 [ji], though the sound is not yet fully clear. 梨 is pronounced li-zhi fan; the Fangyan has "a face resembling a frozen pear." Some texts write 黧; the Yupian has "li-xi fan, black, or old." The Zilin has "dark yellowish." The Tongsuwen says "mottled black is called 黧." Some write 梨, which also means mottled in color. Entirely black is 黮. 黮 has two sounds: one is tu-gan fan, the same as 𧝓, a dark color; the other is ta-gan fan, the color of mulberry fruit. If it is dark greenish-black, it is written 黤, yu-kan fan. 嬈 is pronounced nu-liao fan, meaning to harass or disturb; playfully troubling one another is written 嬲; disordering is written 嫪, nu-qiao fan; the Yupian says: "嬈 is sometimes pronounced like 擾, meaning to tease." Dogs have ten retributions: first, mangy baldness; second, emaciation; third, a dark and mottled color; fourth, scabies and leprosy; fifth, harassment, where harassment means being beaten and tormented; sixth, being despised and held cheap by people, where 惡 is pronounced wu-gu fan; seventh, constant distress from hunger and thirst; eighth, desiccated bones and flesh; ninth, suffering beatings and torments while alive; tenth, suffering tiles and stones when dead. Each of these evil retributions ought to be explained according to the causes that induced them, but fearing prolixity, I stop here.