唯識二十論述記 2.148

2.148

述曰：此第四難。若執境一，如何可有象、馬二物？此是所至中間不至，見有空處。應立量言：無隔一處象、馬二居應不得有中間空處；執是一故；如手握珠。前第三難，約所依一，能依象等，多有間事，難應非有。此第四難約能依二，所依地一，中間應無空缺之處，是二別故。前多有間事，及此有間。合釋於前第三句頌，多有間事。舊論頌但言：「及別類多事」，此第四難。彼頌不攝，故今勘此，善惡易明。

Commentary: This is the fourth difficulty. If the object is held to be one, how could there be two things, elephants and horses, such that this is where they reach, in between they do not reach, and empty space is seen? One should frame an inference: When two things, an elephant and a horse, occupy a single place without intervals, there should not be empty space between them; because you hold it to be one; just like grasping a pearl with the hand. The previous third difficulty was based on the locus of reliance being one, refuting the multiple intervals among the dependent elephants and so forth as impossible. This fourth difficulty is based on the two dependent things: with the ground of reliance being one, in between there should be no empty gap; this is the difference between the two. The previous "multiple things with intervals" and this "having intervals" together explain "multiple things with intervals" in the third line of the earlier verse. The verse in the older translation merely said: "and many things of different kinds"; it did not include this fourth difficulty. Therefore, examining this now, the superior and inferior are easily clarified.