阿彌陀經通贊疏 1.84

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贊曰：第二悲心廣大眾也。又分為三：初標類、二列名、三結之。此即初也。梵云菩提薩埵摩訶薩埵，略云菩薩摩訶薩。菩薩修行略有二門：一、自利，大智為首；二、利他，大悲為先。菩提，覺義，智所求果；薩埵，有情義，悲所度生，依弘誓語故名菩薩；以二為境名為菩薩，有財釋也。又覺是所求果，有情是自身，求三菩提之有情故名菩薩，依主釋也。云摩訶薩者，今此等菩薩名振十方、位居八地，揀小菩薩、表異二乘，故云摩訶薩也。

The Commentary says: Second is the assembly of vast great compassion. This is further divided into three: first, marking their kind; second, listing their names; third, concluding them. This is the first. In Sanskrit, *bodhisattva-mahāsattva*, abbreviated as *bodhisattva mahāsattva*. The practices of a bodhisattva broadly comprise two approaches: first, benefiting oneself, with great wisdom as the foremost; second, benefiting others, with great compassion as the prior. *Bodhi* means awakening, which is the fruit sought through wisdom; *sattva* means sentient beings, who are the beings delivered through compassion. They are named bodhisattvas on the basis of their great vows; designating them through these two as their intentional objects is a possessive compound (bahuvrīhi). Furthermore, awakening is the fruit sought, while sentient being is one's own self: a sentient being who seeks the three bodhis are therefore called a bodhisattva, which is a determinative compound (tatpuruṣa). Regarding "mahāsattva," these bodhisattvas here have their names resounding throughout the ten directions and their stations abide on the eighth ground; to distinguish them from lesser bodhisattvas and signify their difference from the two vehicles, they are therefore called mahāsattvas.