御注金剛般若波羅蜜經宣演 2.145

2.145

Sūtra: “Compared to the former merit, a hundredth part […] is not able to reach.”
Exposition: This is the actual comparative evaluation. Dividing the merit of upholding the sūtra into a hundred parts, the totality of the merit of giving does not equal even one of them. A thousand parts and the rest are also like this. In this text, the wording is abbreviated. The Wei translation says: “A hundredth part, a thousandth part, a hundred-thousandth part, a kalā part, a fractional part, an upaniṣad part, even up to calculation and analogy cannot reach.” The Zhenguan and other versions have differences in detail and brevity; the teachings are not uniform and cannot be judged by a single standard. The verse of that treatise says: