開元釋教錄 17.3

17.3

As for the Catalogue of Excised Redundancies: this refers to [texts that are] the same text under different titles, or brief extracts taken from extensive works, which have been considered redundant and superfluous and are now entirely excised. Merely because years have passed and time has dragged on, errors have been mutually transmitted and propagated; they futilely fill fascicles and cases, costing fruitless labor. Now, having collated discrepancies and agreements in detail and distinguished the merits and demerits, they are fully arranged into items worthy of examination.