阿彌陀經通贊疏 1.89

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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.