金光明經文句記 1.33

1.33

初、正釋。此中文句俱在經也。以能詮教皆用四法，謂聲、名、句、文。此有二種：佛世滅後，若約佛世八音四辯梵音聲相，此一是實；名、句、文身但是聲上屈曲建立，此三是假。聲屬色法，名句文身屬第三聚不相應行，《毘曇》十四、《成論》十七、《瑜伽》二十四種，此則大小二宗所立有異。名句文者，《唯識》云「名詮自性、句詮差別，文即是字，為二所依。」若約滅後諸聖結集，彼土貝葉此方黃卷，其中所載名句文者，皆依形顯，色法建立也。今略舉此二，具足應四。氣類相從者，如以四法同明發起等義，故節為〈序品〉，乃至同明讚佛之義，故節為〈讚品〉。今雖釋序，而品義貫下。

First, directly explicating. Here, text and sentences are both in the scripture. Because the teachings that are able to express all employ four dharmas—namely, sound, name, phrase, and phoneme (vyañjana). There are two types of these: during the Buddha's lifetime and after his parinirvāṇa. In terms of the Buddha's lifetime, with the marks of the Sanskrit vocal sounds of the eight voices and four eloquence, this one is real; the collections of names, phrases, and phonemes are merely established as modulations upon sound, and these three are provisional. Sound belongs to material dharmas (rūpa), while the collections of names, phrases, and phonemes belong to the third group of conditioned dharmas not associated with mind (cittaviprayukta-saṃskāra)—fourteen in the Abhidharma, seventeen in the Tattvasiddhi-śāstra, and twenty-four in the Yogācāra; thus what is established in the Mahāyāna and Hīnayāna schools differs. Regarding name, phrase, and phoneme, the Vijñaptimātratā says: "Names express intrinsic nature, phrases express differentiation, and phonemes are letters, being the basis of the two." If considered after the parinirvāṇa, when the holy ones compiled the scriptures, on palm leaves in that land and yellow scrolls in this land, the names, phrases, and phonemes contained therein are all established based on visible form (rūpa-dharma). Here, these two are briefly raised; fully, there should be four. "Grouping together according to category" means, for instance, using the four dharmas to jointly clarify the meaning of initiation and so forth, thus sectioning it as the "Introductory Chapter," and so on up to jointly clarifying the meaning of praising the Buddha, thus sectioning it as the "Chapter of Praise." Although the preface is being explicated now, the meaning of "chapter" runs through what follows.