淨名經集解關中疏 2.500

2.500

天帝。正使三千大千世界如來滿中。譬如甘蔗竹葦稻麻叢林。若有善男子善女人。或一劫或減一劫。恭敬尊重讚歎供養奉諸所安。至諸佛滅後。以一一全身舍利起七寶塔。從廣一四天下高至梵天表剎莊嚴。以一切華香瓔珞幢幡伎樂微妙第一。若一劫若減一劫而供養之。於天帝意云何。其人殖福寧為多不　此二校量。文四。此初舉況句也。大千諸佛福田最上施。安起塔二世供養是人殖福為多不耶。

'Lord of Devas, even suppose that a great trichiliocosm were filled with Tathāgatas, like sugarcane, bamboo, reeds, rice, hemp, groves, and forests. If there were a good man or good woman who, for an entire kalpa or less than a kalpa, reverently honoured, praised, made offerings to, and provided them with whatever gives ease; and after the parinirvāṇa of these Buddhas, built for each whole-body relic a seven-jeweled stūpa, extending across one four-continent world in breadth, reaching high up to the Brahmā heaven, adorned with spires, and made offerings to them with all kinds of flowers, incense, necklaces, banners, flags, and the most exquisitely wondrous music for a kalpa or less than a kalpa—in the mind of the Lord of Devas, what do you think? Would that person plant much merit or not?' This is second, comparative measurement. The text has four parts: this first raises the hypothetical case. The Buddhas of the great trichiliocosm are the supreme field of merit; giving ease and raising stūpas constitute offerings in two lifetimes—did this person plant much merit or not?