大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 76.32

76.32

Regarding the commentary's "there would be four occurrences of the word ineffable (buke shuo)": taking the earlier pattern, it should say: "an ineffable-ineffable, ineffable-ineffable is one ineffable-ineffable revolution." The first two occurrences of "ineffable-ineffable" are the single unit accumulated—meaning one ineffable-ineffable, two ineffable-ineffables, up to an ineffable-ineffable number of ineffable-ineffables—hence there are four occurrences. Now, replacing two occurrences of "ineffable" with this word "again" (you)—is this not marvelous! The reason this is raised is that the Kanding ji criticized this word "again" in the sūtra as superfluous.