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大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 27.14

大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 27.14

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Classical Chinese

27.14

疏「俱舍」云者,略其義耳。具足頌云「東毘提訶洲,其形如半月,三邊如贍部,南邊三百半。南贍部如車,三邊各二千,南邊三百半。西瞿陀尼洲,其相圓無缺,逕二千五百,周圍此三倍。北俱盧畟方,面各二千等。」東則北闊南狹,餘可知。故結云「四洲相殊」。從「今云如者」,上舉論為問,今為會釋。言「全似此界」者,此四洲安布是一佛居,今此世界同此四洲之界耳。

Regarding the Commentary's citation of the "Kośa": this merely abbreviates its meaning. The complete verse says: "The continent of Pūrvavideha / Is shaped like a half-moon: / Three sides are like Jambūdvīpa, / Its southern side is three hundred and a half. / Southern Jambūdvīpa is like a cart: / Its three sides are each two thousand, / Its southern side is three hundred and a half. / The continent of Aparagodānīya / Has a round form without flaw, / With a diameter of two thousand five hundred, / Its circumference three times this. / Uttarakuru is square, / Each side equally two thousand." The east is broad in the north and narrow in the south; the rest may be known. Therefore it concludes: "The characteristics of the four continents differ." From "now saying 'like'", the treatise was raised above as a question, and now it is harmonized and explained. The phrase "entirely like this realm" means: the arrangement of these four continents is the dwelling of a single Buddha; now this world is identical to the realm of these four continents.

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