Measureless Further Gates
The last twenty syllables complete the forty-two-letter teaching, several of them built from two or three characters at once — before the youth closes with a claim that these forty-two are only the head of a doorway opening onto measureless, countless more.
Measureless Further Gates
Where the first half of this teaching used mostly single characters, this half leans on two- and three-character compounds — the text's own way of pinning down sounds no single common character could carry alone.
唱奢尸苛切字時,入般若波羅蜜門,名:隨順一切佛教輪光明;唱佉字時,入般若波羅蜜門,名:修因地智慧藏;唱叉楚我切字時,入般若波羅蜜門,名:息諸業海藏;唱娑蘇紇切多上聲呼字時,入般若波羅蜜門,名:蠲諸惑障開淨光明;唱壤字時,入般若波羅蜜門,名:作世間智慧門;唱曷攞多上聲字時,入般若波羅蜜門,名:生死境界智慧輪;唱婆蒲我切字時,入般若波羅蜜門,名:一切智宮殿圓滿莊嚴;唱車上聲呼字時,入般若波羅蜜門,名:修行方便藏各別圓滿;唱娑蘇紇切麼字時,入般若波羅蜜門,名:隨十方現見諸佛;唱訶婆二字皆上聲呼字時,入般若波羅蜜門,名:觀察一切無緣眾生方便攝受令出生無礙力;唱縒七可切字時,入般若波羅蜜門,名:修行趣入一切功德海;唱伽上聲呼字時,入般若波羅蜜門,名:持一切法雲堅固海藏;唱吒字時,入般若波羅蜜門,名:隨願普見十方諸佛;唱拏嬭可切字時,入般若波羅蜜門,名:觀察字輪有無盡諸億字;唱娑蘇紇切頗字時,入般若波羅蜜門,名:化眾生究竟處;唱娑同前音迦字時,入般若波羅蜜門,名:廣大藏無礙辯光明輪遍照;唱也夷舸切娑蘇舸切字時,入般若波羅蜜門,名:宣說一切佛法境界;唱室者字時,入般若波羅蜜門,名:於一切眾生界法雷遍吼;唱侘恥加切字時,入般若波羅蜜門,名:以無我法開曉眾生;唱陀字時,入般若波羅蜜門,名:一切法輪差別藏。善男子!我唱如是字母時,此四十二般若波羅蜜門為首,入無量無數般若波羅蜜門。
When I intone the syllable she (奢, as glossed), I enter the gate of prajñāpāramitā named According with the Light of Every Buddha's Own Wheel of Teaching; when I intone the syllable qie (佉), I enter the gate of prajñāpāramitā named The Treasury of Wisdom Cultivated on the Ground of Causes; when I intone the syllable chuo (叉, as glossed), I enter the gate of prajñāpāramitā named The Treasury That Quells Every Ocean of Karma; when I intone the syllable se-duo (娑多, 娑 as glossed, 多 called in the rising tone), I enter the gate of prajñāpāramitā named Dispelling Every Hindrance of Delusion, Opening Pure Light; when I intone the syllable rang (壤), I enter the gate of prajñāpāramitā named The Gate of Wisdom Made for the World; when I intone the syllable he-luo-duo (曷攞多, 多 called in the rising tone), I enter the gate of prajñāpāramitā named The Wheel of Wisdom over the Domain of Birth-and-Death; when I intone the syllable po (婆, as glossed), I enter the gate of prajñāpāramitā named The Palace of All-Knowing Wisdom, Perfectly and Completely Adorned; when I intone the syllable che (車, called in the rising tone), I enter the gate of prajñāpāramitā named The Treasury of Skillful Means in Practice, Each One Perfectly Complete; when I intone the syllable se-mo (娑麼, 娑 as glossed), I enter the gate of prajñāpāramitā named Beholding Every Buddha Present Throughout the Ten Directions; when I intone the syllable he-po (訶婆, both characters called in the rising tone), I enter the gate of prajñāpāramitā named Contemplating Every Being Without Affinity, and Skillfully Gathering Them In to Give Rise to the Power of No Obstruction; when I intone the syllable qe (縒, as glossed), I enter the gate of prajñāpāramitā named Practicing to Enter the Ocean of Every Merit; when I intone the syllable jia (伽, called in the rising tone), I enter the gate of prajñāpāramitā named Upholding the Firm Treasury of the Ocean, the Cloud of Every Dharma; when I intone the syllable zha (吒), I enter the gate of prajñāpāramitā named According with Every Vow, Universally Beholding the Buddhas of the Ten Directions; when I intone the syllable ne (拏, as glossed), I enter the gate of prajñāpāramitā named Contemplating the Wheel of Letters, Whose Countless Koṭis of Letters Are Inexhaustible; when I intone the syllable se-po (娑頗, 娑 as glossed), I enter the gate of prajñāpāramitā named The Ultimate Place Where Beings Are Transformed; when I intone the syllable se-jia (娑迦, 娑 read as before), I enter the gate of prajñāpāramitā named The Vast Treasury, the Wheel of Unobstructed Eloquence's Light, Shining Everywhere; when I intone the syllable ye-se (也娑, each character separately glossed), I enter the gate of prajñāpāramitā named Proclaiming the Domain of Every Buddha-Dharma; when I intone the syllable shi-zhe (室者), I enter the gate of prajñāpāramitā named The Dharma-Thunder Roaring Everywhere Throughout Every Realm of Beings; when I intone the syllable chia (侘, as glossed), I enter the gate of prajñāpāramitā named Awakening Every Being Through the Dharma of No-Self; when I intone the syllable tuo (陀), I enter the gate of prajñāpāramitā named The Treasury of Distinctions in the Wheel of Every Dharma. Good son! When I intone letters such as these, with these forty-two gates of prajñāpāramitā as the head, I enter measureless, countless gates of prajñāpāramitā.
此四十二般若波羅蜜門為首,入無量無數般若波羅蜜門 — with these forty-two gates of prajñāpāramitā as the head, I enter measureless, countless gates of prajñāpāramitā. Forty-two named letters in all across this Part and the last — verified by counting every distinct letter-entry in the source, apart from the closing sentence's own extra mention of "intoning" — and the youth's own closing line insists this exact, finite list is only ever a beginning, a head rather than a total.
Part 1250 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-nine, 入法界品, in fascicle seventy-six. Part 1251 turns to Skilled in Every Art's own humility formula, and the referral that sends Good-Wealth to a laywoman named Worthy Superior in the land of Magadha.