大般涅槃經義記 8.43

8.43

Below, the Buddha answers, first praising and then explaining. In the praise, the opening words 'Excellent!' provide a general praise; from 'There are two' downward is the specific [praise]. First, in praising the rarity of the benefit of the question, he generally adduces six kinds of pairs of people to show that all are rare, in order to single out the sixth by categorizing the others alongside it. Among the benefits: 'turning the Dharma' is the benefit of revealing the correct; 'drying up the twelve [links]' and so forth is the benefit of destroying saṃsāra; from 'being able to [defeat] Māra' downward is the benefit of crushing the heterodox.