妙法蓮華經玄贊 2.242

2.242

The commentary says: Below is the second part, answering by revealing the subsequent supreme excellence. The treatise calls this the cause of visibly seen supreme excellence, because the buddhas and bodhisattvas themselves manifest and partake of supreme names, clans, and so forth; thus it is called supreme excellence. In the text there are four excellences, of which two are here: first, the excellence of having the same name; second, the excellence of having the same clan. "Bhāradvāja" is one of the eighteen clans among the brahmins.