His manor house was large [broad and great], but had only one gate. In that house lived many people, numbering a hundred or two hundred or five hundred.

They take delusions as their original source and are settled in them: this is what house represents. Delusions are everywhere: they are “broad and great.”

The Buddha teaches the passage to enlightenment: he is the “doorway.” Only these people have passed through it, they are “one hundred or two hundred”: gods (devas) account for “one hundred”; men, “two hundred”. The three evil paths (gati) of transmigration account for “five hundred.” They rely on the [three] realms: they are “dwelling in it.”