四分律行事鈔資持記 2.13

2.13

In 'Itemized Explanations'. The eight passages each have a dharma and a metaphor; the first three are metaphors for the precept-essence, and the latter five all speak of cherishing, which are metaphors for precept practice. The fourth is conflated with the first: the former directly uses a prince to illustrate the reception-essence, while the latter uses a father loving his son to illustrate the subsequent practice. The eye is a metaphor for right view, provisions are compared to the auxiliaries to the path, the kingdom refers to possessing virtue, and the medicine is the removal of obstacles; by examining the text it can be known. In the third, as for the wish-fulfilling jewel, the Mahāprajñāpāramitā-śāstra says: It comes from the brain of a dragon; when sentient beings obtain it, it removes poverty and dispels poison. (Others say it is the heart of a garuḍa, or the relics of an ancient Buddha.) Good destinies are humans and devas; bodhi is the fruit of Buddhahood; the three vehicles are omitted in between, hence it says 'and even'. The three things in the seventh: sufficient wealth refers to the kingdom being rich; desire-dusts refers to the objects of form, sound, and so on; when the kingdom has sufficient dusts, the king's mind is gratified, which below is joined with 'the mind being at peace'; proper law refers to rites, music, commands, and orders not losing their proper place. In the matching of dharma, the three lines beginning with 'immeasurable' correspond to the three things above.