注大乘入楞伽經 4.269

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[The commentary says:] Just as based on the object of a jar or a bowl, one establishes the name 'jar' or 'bowl'—meaning one name, two names, or many names that can express intrinsic nature—this is called a collection of names. Speaking of a collection of phrases and so forth: names form phrases, and phrases reveal meaning, as in 'copper jar', 'iron jar', and so forth, where the meaning of the phrases is distinct; meaning one phrase, two phrases, or many phrases that can express distinctions—this is called a collection of phrases. Because through these syllables one can form names and phrases—meaning one syllable, two syllables, or many syllables acting as the basis for the two—this is called a collection of syllables. If following the old translation where 'syllable' (vyañjana) was rendered as 'flavour' (pada/rasa), that was merely what is revealed, not that which reveals. 'Collection' (kāya) has the meaning of an accumulation of many elements.