大般涅槃經義記 1.59

1.59

In the second part, beholding the signs and increasing in sorrow, first seeing the light is clarified, next their urging one another on, and finally increasing in mournful weeping. Their feelings of longing were deep and heavy, and their boiling blood was about to burst forth; therefore, bodily blood became visible, like the *pālaśaka* flower. The six-fascicle sūtra says: 'Like the sun first rising, shining on the green tree leaves, so that the red veins all appear.'