翻譯名義集 6.5

6.5

【卍】 The Xunwen states: "Zhichen's Zuanyao says: 'The Sanskrit calls it śrīvatsa. Here it is translated as "auspicious ocean cloud". On the Tathāgata's chest is a mark of a great man, shaped like the character 𭮐, called the auspicious ocean cloud.'" The Huayan yinyi says: "Upon examination, the character 卍 was originally not a character. In the second year of the Changshou reign of the Great Zhou, the Sovereign provisionally instituted this graph and placed it upon the Celestial Pivot, pronouncing it wan, meaning the gathering of ten thousand auspicious virtues. Throughout the sūtras, based on the Chinese recensions, there are seventeen characters in all that are uniformly pronounced wan. According to the Sanskrit text, there are twenty-eight marks (and so forth)."