首楞嚴義疏注經 1.74

1.74

此云近少，義翻塵性，觀塵性空而得道故。微塵即是色近少分，隣近虛空是色邊際，故名塵性為近少也。如下經云「我悟色性，以從不淨白骨微塵歸於虛空，空色二無，成無學道，如來印我名尼沙陀。」更有餘人，經不具載，故云等也。即三迦葉輩，此皆頭角，為眾知識，綱領佛法，各有弟子，故云上首也。

Translated here as "Near-Few," and rendered according to its meaning as "Nature of Dust," because he attained the Way through contemplating that the nature of dust is empty. A fine speck of dust is a minute fraction close to form; bordering upon empty space, it is the boundary of form; hence the nature of dust is named "Near-Few." As the sūtra says below: "I awakened to the nature of form; proceeding from impure white bones and specks of dust returning to empty space, emptiness and form both being absent, I achieved the path of the adept (aśaikṣa-mārga), and the Tathāgata sealed me with the name Niṣad." There were also other people not fully recorded in the sūtra, hence it says "and others." That is, those such as the three Kāśyapa brothers; these were all pre-eminent figures, serving as spiritual teachers to the assembly, guiding the Buddhadharma, each possessing disciples; hence it says "leaders."