大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 27.14

27.14

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.