Decline, reject; but, yet.

A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms, William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous

却 (què) 　“hereafter, in the future”#

{《漢語大詞典》2.541} ; {《大漢和辞典》2.637} ;

cf. Matsuo 1988: 47 {《中古虛詞語法例釋》432.} ;

Dharmarakṣa: {95c22} 滿願子…………具足滿進菩薩道行，却無數劫當成爲佛，號法照曜如來(p)

{K.201.11-}

Kumārajīva: {L.27c18} 過(無量阿僧祇劫) 

A Digital Edition of A Glossary of Dharmarakṣa translation of the Lotus Sutra by Seishi Karashima, 1998