阿彌陀經通贊疏 1.89

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阿逸多，此云慈氏，依梵本應云梅呾利曳那，此翻為慈，古云彌帝隷或言彌勒者皆訛。當來下生之時，纔生便具三十二相，身紫金色姿容揵特。母性不調，懷子已來悲心濟物慈心救厄。相師曰：「此師子兒之德也。」因為立號稱梅呾利曳那。若釋此名，應云梅呾利曳尼，尼是女聲，母姓慈故因名慈氏。因成現在、果熟當生，忻慕淨方亦來至會。

Ajita is rendered here as "Compassionate One" (Cishi). According to the Sanskrit text, it should be *Maitrāyaṇa*, which is translated here as "Compassionate." The older renderings *Midili* or *Mile* are all corruptions. When he descends to be born in the future, upon mere birth he will be endowed with the thirty-two marks, his body of purple-golden color, his appearance exceptionally wondrous. His mother's nature had been unruly, but since conceiving the child, her mind of compassion aided beings and her mind of kindness rescued those in distress. A physiognomist said: 'This is the virtue of a lion's whelp!' He was accordingly named *Maitrāyaṇa*. If analyzing this name, it should be *Maitrāyaṇī*, where *nī* is feminine gender: because his mother's clan was named Compassion, he was named after it as Compassionate One. His causes being accomplished in the present and his fruits maturing in his future birth, he too came to this assembly yearning for the pure realm.