觀音義疏 1.56

1.56

人數者，但舉百千總數，不定判多少，明入海求珍，結伴無定，難無定數，終不可獨往，故舉百千也。《賢愚》云：「田殖百倍、商估千倍、仕宦萬倍、入海吉還得無量倍，故入海也。」次遭風，是難由約下文證，今若開風為正難，下文云：「皆得解脫羅剎之難。」此豈不獨是羅剎難也？難由正應，無在由者，何但由風？由風墮難、由入海遭風，求寶入海，由貪求珍寶，展轉相由，風災難切，故風是墮難之由也。

As for the number of people, it merely adduces the general number of 'hundreds of thousands', without fixing or determining how many, clarifying that when entering the sea in search of treasures, companions are gathered without a fixed count, and perils have no fixed number, but ultimately one cannot go alone; thus it adduces hundreds of thousands. The [Sūtra of the] Wise and the Foolish states: 'Farming yields a hundredfold, trading a thousandfold, official service ten-thousandfold, but entering the sea and returning auspiciously yields immeasurable fold; therefore they enter the sea.' Next, encountering the wind is the reason for the peril based on the text below; if one were now to open wind as the principal peril, the lower text says: 'all obtain liberation from the peril of rākṣasas.' How could this not be solely the peril of rākṣasas? The reason for the peril corresponds directly: there is no limit to the reasons. How could it merely be due to wind? Due to the wind, they fall into the peril; due to entering the sea, they encounter the wind; to seek treasures, they enter the sea; due to greedily seeking rare treasures, these conditions sequentially arise from one another. The disaster of the wind is urgent, and so the wind is the reason for falling into the peril.