因明入正理論疏 1.6

1.6

有陳那菩薩，是稱命世，賢劫千佛之一佛也。匿跡巖藪，栖巒等持，觀述作之利害，審文義之繁約。于時，崖谷震吼，雲霞變彩，山神捧菩薩足，高數百尺，唱云：「佛說因明，玄妙難究，如來滅後，大義淪絕。今幸福智悠邈，深達聖旨，因明論道，願請重弘。」菩薩乃放神光，照燭機感。時，彼南印度案達羅國王，見放光明，疑入金剛定，請證無學果。菩薩曰：「入定觀察，將釋深經。心期大覺，非願小果。」王言：「無學果者，諸聖攸仰，請尊速證。」菩薩撫之，欲遂王請，妙吉祥菩薩因彈指警曰：「何捨大心，方興小志？為廣利益者，當傳慈氏所說《瑜伽論》，匡正頹綱，可制因明，重成規矩。」陳那敬受指誨，奉以周旋。於是覃思研精，作《因明正理門論》。正理者，諸法本真之體義。門者，權衡照解之所由。

There was the Bodhisattva Diṅnāga, acclaimed as epoch-making, one of the thousand buddhas of the Fortunate Kalpa. Hiding his traces in rocky groves and dwelling on mountain crags in meditative absorption, he observed the advantages and disadvantages of composition and weighed the abundance and conciseness of the texts and their meanings. At that time, the cliffs and valleys roared, the clouds and mists changed their colors, and a mountain spirit held up the Bodhisattva's feet several hundred feet high, proclaiming: 'The Buddha's exposition of hetuvidyā is profound, subtle, and difficult to fathom. After the Tathāgata's parinirvāṇa, the great meaning was lost. Now, through your far-reaching merit and wisdom, you have deeply penetrated the sage's intention; we pray that you once again propagate the path of hetuvidyā.' The Bodhisattva then emitted a spiritual light, illuminating those who had the capacity to respond. At that time, the king of the Andhra kingdom in southern India, seeing the light shine, suspected he had entered the vajra-like samādhi and requested him to realize the fruit of no-further-learning. The Bodhisattva said: 'I entered absorption to observe so that I may explain the profound sūtras. My mind aspires to great awakening, not to the small fruit.' The king said: 'The fruit of no-further-learning is that toward which all the sages look up; I ask the venerable one to realize it quickly.' As the Bodhisattva was consoling him and wishing to comply with the king's request, the Bodhisattva Mañjuśrī warned him by snapping his fingers, saying: 'Why abandon the great mind and just now give rise to small aspiration? If you wish to bring extensive benefit, you should transmit the Yogācārabhūmi spoken by Maitreya to correct the collapsing guidelines, and you may compose [treatises on] hetuvidyā to reconstruct the rules.' Diṅnāga reverently accepted his guidance and acted in accordance with it. Thereupon, meditating deeply and investigating thoroughly, he composed the Nyāyamukha. 'Nyāya' refers to the fundamental and true substance and meaning of all phenomena. 'Mukha' (gate) refers to that from which the balancing scale illuminates and understands.