大方廣佛華嚴經疏 11.35

11.35

Fifth, the groves of flowers between the rivers. The prose has three parts: first, the general indication; next, from 'each and every' downward, the specific exposition; finally, from 'that fragrant water' downward, the general conclusion. The specific exposition has two things, namely flowers and trees, one each of water and land, but in reality there are many things. However, the style of this section is slightly different: it does not enumerate ten things to reveal inexhaustibility, but merely takes two to clarify multiplicity in turn, namely first the white lotus and next the jewel tree. From this single tree emerge five functional operations: first, producing clouds of adornment; second, jewel kings shining; third, flowers and fragrances overflowing; fourth, emitting sounds that expound the Dharma; fifth, raining jewels all over the ground. Within this, the text has general, specific, and concluding [parts]. Specifically there are eight things, spanning the three worlds: the first six manifest the vessel [world], the next manifests sambodhi, and the last manifests the world of sentient beings. First, sword-leaf groves and the like manifest retribution of bad karma. Kalpavṛkṣa trees and the like are retributions of good karma. In the groves of men and women, being born at dawn and falling at dusk are all oceans of karmic retribution. From 'such as these' downward, concluding provisionally that the trees raining jewels already equals the dust motes of an ocean of lands, by analogy the other four such as producing clouds are each likewise, so within a single tree there are already the adornments of multiple oceans of lands. Next, by analogy the *puṇḍarīka* flowers are also the same as the trees; these flowers and trees each have the dust motes of four continents, each and every one being thus, and categories like the flowers and trees should further have items equal to the dust motes of oceans of lands, hence being inexhaustible adornments.