維摩經略疏垂裕記 1.64

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二、示此土宜略。「振旦」者，或真丹、旃丹、指難，皆梵音奢切也。若準《華嚴》翻為漢地。又《婆沙》中有二音：一云指那，此云文物國，即讚美此方是衣冠文物之地也。二云指難，此云邊鄙，即貶挫此方非中國也。《西域記》翻摩訶支那為大漢國。或謂日出東隅，其色如丹，故云震旦、真丹者，此皆訛說。「刪彼」下，謂西來三藏皆刪取梵文要義翻傳此土，故雖五譯不同，但至二三卷而已。「采其綱格」者，弟子命十、菩薩命四，則綱格已整。其五百八千綱目之說，刪而弗傳。致問疾但云無量高論唯存數紙，斯皆采其綱格也。招提琰法師云：「此經來不盡。西國有五百卷，凡十萬偈。」

Second, showing that abridgment was appropriate for this land. "Zhendan"—also Zhendan, Zhandan, or Zhinan—are all phonetic variations of the Sanskrit sound. According to the Huayan [jing], it is translated as the land of Han. Furthermore, in the Vibhāṣā there are two sounds: one says Zhina, translated here as the land of culture and letters, which praises this land as a land of capped and robed culture and letters. The second says Zhinan, translated here as borderland, which demeans this land as not being the Central Kingdom. The Records of the Western Regions translates Mahācīna as the Great Han country. Some say that because the sun rises in the eastern quarter and its color is like cinnabar (dan), it is called Zhendan or Zhendan; these are all erroneous explanations. "Deleting that" downward means that the Tripiṭaka masters who came from the west all excised and selected the essential meanings of the Sanskrit texts to translate and transmit them to this land; therefore, although the five translations differ, they extend only to two or three fascicles. "Selecting the overarching framework": when ten disciples and four bodhisattvas were ordered, the overarching framework was already complete. The detailed accounts of the five hundred and the eight thousand were deleted and not transmitted. To inquire about the illness merely says "immeasurable", and the lofty discussions preserve only a few sheets; all of these are instances of selecting the overarching framework. Dharma Master Yan of Zhaoti said: "This scripture did not arrive in its entirety. In the western lands it has five hundred fascicles, totaling one hundred thousand verses."