妙法蓮華經玄贊 2.310

2.310

The commentary states: Below there are forty-three verses, which versify the previous pointing out of specific matters and the identity between past and present; they do not versify the first two causes, and the final two verses are not included within the answer. The third speaks to the assembly to exhort their understanding, and does not versify the previous meaning; thus it is divided into two: first, forty verses versify pointing out specific matters; second, three verses versify the identity between past and present. The prose section pointing out specific matters had seven causes divided into three; now, not versifying the supreme causes such as the subsequent buddhas, it versifies six causes, divided into two: the first two verses versify praising what is rare; the subsequent thirty-eight verses versify detailing matching affairs. Within praising what is rare, there are also four: the first two lines versify the time, the next two lines versify the name, the next line versifies the Dharma, and the last three lines versify producing benefit.