大乘百法明門論解 1.7

1.7

又會六釋云：大乘者，是能詮教，唯聲、名、句、文四法故劣；百法乃所詮事，理通一百法故勝。將勝就劣，以劣顯勝，云大乘之百法，依士釋也。

Furthermore, explaining by applying the six compound analyses: "Mahāyāna" is the expressive teaching, which is inferior because it consists only of the four dharmas of sounds, names, sentences, and phonemes; the "hundred dharmas" are the signified matters, which are superior because they conceptually encompass all one hundred dharmas. Subordinating the superior to the inferior to reveal the superior by means of the inferior, saying "the hundred dharmas of the Mahāyāna," is a tatpuruṣa compound.