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論主答云：「剋實果唯花功能，由先種子展轉為因，引起花中生果功能，約展轉因說種生果，故此花中生果功能由先種子展轉引故，所生果相而似種也。今業生果亦如外種，由業為先，熏成種子，相續轉變，差別果生。」

The author of the treatise answers, saying: "Strictly speaking, the fruit is solely the capacity of the flower. Because the prior seed serves successively as cause, inducing the capacity to produce the fruit within the flower, with reference to the successive cause it is said that the seed produces the fruit. Therefore, because this capacity to produce the fruit within the flower was successively induced by the prior seed, the characteristics of the produced fruit resemble the seed. Now, karma producing a fruit is also like an external seed: with karma preceding, it perfumes and forms seeds; through continuum and transformation, differentiated fruits arise."