金光明經文句記 6.96

6.96

Third, the fifth [section] clarifies the gathering together of past and present. The sūtra says "Rāhula"; this is translated as "Covering Obstacle," named thus because he was in the womb for six years. The new translation says "Rāhula," which is translated as "Moon-Obstructor"; however, the matters of fundamental and trace cannot be known with certainty, so consider them beside the text. The ten thousand [fish], past and present, must have been those converted; the rest are all those capable of converting. According to what is preached in the Avataṃsaka and other sūtras, these converters all cultivated their true causes across an ocean of kalpas, maturing these ten thousand to bring about their deliverance now. If we take the meaning of the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka Sūtra regarding the ancient attainment, in their traces they all received these capacities to cause them to receive the prediction now. Lecturers of this school should know this internally.