瑜伽論記 13.428

13.428

下辨差別有三，初云於所詮義略中廣者，文非正詮，但助名句令成詮表遠有餘義漸少名略，名但詮體名中，句詮體義用盡名廣，以句起時必帶名文，故說句能詮表事廣。第二緣之生解差別。第三由依五明明種種分別起名句等，故說名等依彼五明。

Below, three distinctions are made: First, it speaks of 'being concise, middling, or extensive with respect to the referent expressed': syllables are not direct expressions, but merely assist names and phrases to effect expression, and since remote remaining senses gradually decrease, they are called 'concise'; names merely express the essence, and are called 'middling'; phrases express the essence, meaning, and function exhaustively, and are called 'extensive'; because when a phrase arises it necessarily carries names and syllables, it is said that phrases express things extensively. Second, the distinctions of generating understanding based upon them. Third, because diverse discriminations give rise to names, phrases, and so forth based on the five sciences, it is therefore said that names and so forth rely on those five sciences.