阿彌陀經疏 1.134

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經曰：「有七寶池」，次釋第一池瑩七珍也。準《觀經》但有八池，此應據大者勝者說。若《清淨覺經》等，處處皆有浴池，或遶佛講堂，或遶羅漢菩薩講堂，如來浴池最大，縱廣四萬八千由旬，其諸菩薩聲聞及天人等各洗浴已，或於堂中誦經說法坐禪者，或在虛空中講法誦經入定者，於是未得道者悉皆得道，或得初果四果及不退轉，彼無大海江河溪㵎，但有諸池及小芙渠，其池四邊皆七寶間錯，令水亦作諸異寶色。

The sūtra says: 'There are seven-jewel ponds.' Next is the explanation of the first [point], ponds glittering with the seven treasures. According to the Contemplation Sūtra, there are only eight ponds; here it must speak based on the larger and superior ones. According to the Qingjing jue jing and other texts, there are bathing ponds everywhere—either encircling the Buddha's lecture hall, or encircling the lecture halls of arhats and bodhisattvas. The Tathāgata's bathing pond is the largest, forty-eight thousand yojanas in length and breadth. After those bodhisattvas, śrāvakas, devas, humans, and others have each bathed, some chant sūtras, preach the Dharma, and sit in meditation inside the halls; others explain the Dharma, chant sūtras, and enter samādhi in the open sky; thereupon those who have not yet attained the Path all attain the Path, some attaining the first fruit, the fourth fruit, or non-retrogression. There, there are no great oceans, rivers, streams, or torrents, but only various ponds and small lotuses; the four sides of those ponds are intertwined with the seven jewels, causing the water also to display the colors of various distinct jewels.