肇論新疏 3.310

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初二喻皆古譯《毘婆沙論》之義。故彼論二十二云：「猶如一的，若木若鐵，眾箭所中。如是一無為體，為三想所行」等。五十五云：「於甚深十二因緣河，能盡其底，是名為佛，二乘不爾。如三獸渡河，謂兔、馬、象，兔則騰擲乃渡，馬或盡底或不盡底，香象於一切時無不盡底」等。

The first two metaphors both convey the meaning of the ancient translation of the Vibhāṣā-śāstra. Thus, fascicle twenty-two of that treatise states: “Just like a single target, whether of wood or iron, struck by many arrows, so it is with the single unconditioned essence traversed by the three notions,” and so forth. Fascicle fifty-five states: “Being able to reach the very bottom of the profound river of the twelve links of dependent origination is named ‘Buddha’; the two vehicles cannot do so. It is like three beasts crossing a river—namely, a hare, a horse, and an elephant: the hare crosses by leaping and bounding; the horse sometimes reaches the bottom and sometimes does not; the gandhahastin (scented elephant) at all times never fails to reach the bottom,” and so forth.