成唯識論掌中樞要 1.18

1.18

今釋名「成」：「成」非本稱，但取本論正名，不取別注名也。或有「唯」本非釋名，如《辨中邊》；或有「唯釋」非本名，如《唯識道論》；或有「本」、「釋」二名，如《雜集論》。今「唯釋」名或是通名，其「成唯識」唯識之成，「蘇漫多」聲中第六屬主者，則八轉聲，其此聲論辨此聲中，「蘇」字居後，「漫多」是後義，則是「蘇」字居後聲也。「底彥多」聲有十，八囀，辨此聲中「底」字居後，「彥多」是後義，則是「底」字居後聲也。為簡此聲，言「蘇漫多」。「殺三磨娑」釋中依主釋也，「殺」者六也，「三磨娑」合也，則六合釋初離後合故。因論生論，一字既無詮表，如何「殺」言可是六也。今依梵本有「沙吒多」三字，合之，方成「殺」言，故非一字有詮表也。

Now the commentary is named “Establishment”: “Establishment” is not the root designation; it merely takes the root treatise's primary name and does not take the specially noted name. In some cases, there is “only the root” without the name of the commentary, as in the Madhyāntavibhāga; in some cases, there is “only the commentary” and not the root name, as in the Vijñaptimātratā-mārga-śāstra; in some cases, both “root” and “commentary” names are present, as in the Abhidharmasamuccaya-vyākhyā. Now, the name “only the commentary” may also be a general designation. In “Establishment of Consciousness-Only” (the establishment of consciousness-only), among the subanta declensions, it is the sixth, the genitive (possessive) case. That is, within the eight case inflections, when treatises on grammar analyze these nominal endings, the su ending is placed at the end; manta means “ending”, and thus it is an ending where su stands at the end. There are ten tenses/moods and eighteen person-endings in tiṅanta; when analyzing these verbal terminations, the ti ending is placed at the end; anta means “ending”, and thus it is an ending where ti stands at the end. To distinguish it from these endings, it is called subanta. Among the ṣaṭsamāsa compounds, it is a tatpuruṣa compound (dependent determinative compound); ṣaṭ means six, and samāsa means compound; thus among the six compounds, it first separates and then combines. Following the discussion: since a single syllable has no denotation, how can the syllable sha mean six? Relying on the Sanskrit text, there are three syllables, ṣa-ṭ-ta; combining them forms the word ṣaṭ; therefore it is not that a single syllable has denotation.