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大方廣佛華嚴經疏 47.4

大方廣佛華嚴經疏 47.4

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47.4

二釋名者,阿之言無,僧祇曰數,全帶數名。若晉本云心王菩薩問阿僧祇品,兼能問人,即人法雙舉,及菩薩所問之算數,梵本同此。然僧祇是十大數之創首,經論多用,故以標名。又顯此數即離數故,寄無數標名。

Second, in explaining the title: a- means "non-" (wu) and saṃkhyeya means "count" (shu); it fully bears the name of a number. In the Jin translation it is called "Chapter on Bodhisattva Mind King's Inquiries on the Incalculable," also incorporating the inquirer, which cites both person and Dharma, as well as the calculation inquired about by the bodhisattva; the Sanskrit text is the same as this. However, asaṃkhyeya is the head of the ten great numbers and is widely used in sūtras and treatises; hence it is used to designate the title. Furthermore, to reveal that this number is precisely detached from numbers, the title is designated by resorting to "incalculable" (numberless).

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