成唯識論述記 1.536

1.536

述曰：汝言地性，應非地性；異地故；如火等。火等一一相望亦爾。實中九種各各相望，有九比量；德有二十四；業有五種；合三十八。返覆有七十六。各二二合，三三合者，乃有無量。第二准量云：地應非地；異地等性故；如火等。然豈不有違自宗失，何乃言地非地等耶？今者不然，此則應言：汝所計地，應非實地，言簡別之。我宗之地，非實地故，是假立故，又非實句之中地故。彼計火等，亦非實句地，無不定過。前量應簡別，文言略故也。

The Commentary states: You say that the nature of earth should not be the nature of earth; because it is different from earth; like fire and so forth. Fire and so forth, compared individually with one another, are also like this. Within substance, the nine types compared mutually with each other yield nine inferences; qualities have twenty-four; actions have five; totaling thirty-eight. Reversing them, there are seventy-six. If combined two by two, or three by three, they are indeed immeasurable. Formulating the second by analogy: Earth should not be earth; because it is different from the nature of earth and so forth; like fire and so forth. But does this not incur the fault of contradicting one's own school; why would one say that earth is not earth, and so on? Now, this is not so; one should say: The earth posited by you should not be real earth, qualifying it with words. Because the earth of our school is not real earth, being provisionally posited, and moreover is not the earth within the substance category. In their tenets, fire and so forth are also not the earth of the substance category, so there is no fallacy of inconclusiveness. The preceding inference should be qualified, but the text is concise.