大方廣佛華嚴經疏 8.24

8.24

七修證者，五位通修，佛方究竟。十約因位，總有三名，謂初無數劫，施等勢力尚微，被煩惱伏，但名波羅蜜多；第二劫去勢力漸增，能伏煩惱，名近波羅蜜多；第三僧祇勢力轉增，能畢竟伏一切煩惱，名大波羅蜜多。故上下文中屢言廣大波羅蜜也。

7. Cultivation and realization: they are cultivated throughout all five stations, and only a Buddha brings them to ultimate completion. In relation to the causal stations, there are generally three designations: during the first incalculable eon, the power of giving and the others is still weak and is subdued by afflictions, so it is merely called pāramitā; from the second eon onward, its power gradually increases and can subdue afflictions, so it is called upa-pāramitā; during the third asaṃkhyeya, its power increases still further and can definitively subdue all afflictions, so it is called mahā-pāramitā. Therefore, throughout the context of this text it repeatedly speaks of 'vast pāramitās'.