成唯識論述記 1.616

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述曰：此正述難。極微所生一果色，體應非是一；如所在因父母極微，處各別故；如父母極微。此但應言：如二極微量，以三微果等，因非極微故。但可總相相即，言如因量。又文中少此意，欲顯一子微居父母二極微之中，即在此者非彼，在彼者非此，云如所在因處各別故。量云：所生色果，體應非一；在此東者非西，處各別故；如所在因父母極微。

The Commentary states: This directly states the challenge. The single material effect produced from the atoms should not be one in substance; because, like the causal parent atoms in which it resides, their locations are distinct; just like the parent atoms. One should simply state: 'equal to the size of two atoms,' because with an effect of three atoms, the causes are not single atoms. One can only speak of them in general terms as mutually identical, saying 'equal to the size of the causes.' Furthermore, the text lacks this explicit statement, aiming to show that a single child-atom resides within two parent atoms: that which is here is not there, and that which is there is not here; thus it says, 'because, like the causes in which it resides, their locations are distinct.' The syllogism is: The produced material effect should not be one in substance; because being here in the east it is not in the west, its locations being distinct; just like the causal parent atoms in which it resides.