金光明最勝王經疏 2.73

2.73

The commentary says: This indicates the reason for manifesting a brief [lifespan]. There are two reasons: first, to extinguish evil, namely abandoning saṃsāra; second, to generate goodness, namely causing them to attain bodhi. Here, it is to extinguish evil. It also distinctively explains the five defilements (pañcakasāyāḥ). There are five kinds of defilement; here four are cited: First, the lifespan defilement (āyuḥkaṣāya), which refers to human life lasting one hundred years. Second, the sentient-being defilement (sattvakaṣāya), within which there are three aspects: 1. their joyful disposition is not magnanimous, which refers to being inferior by nature; 2. they lack past merit and wisdom, which refers to having meager and thin roots of goodness; 3. they have much delusion and foolishness, which refers to having no faith and understanding.