金剛般若波羅蜜經略疏 1.8

1.8

（音釋）琳音云：正梵音嚩折羅，此翻云「金剛」。般若，「般」本梵音云鉢囉（二合），囉取羅字上聲兼轉舌，其二合者兩字各取半音合為一聲，古云般者，訛略也。「若」（而者反）正梵音枳（音鷄以反）孃（取上聲二合）合為一聲（《守護國界經》呪云「枳孃」，唐言智慧，或云正了知）。古云「若」，略也。波羅蜜，「波」正梵音應云播（波箇反引聲），「羅」正梵音應云囉（取羅上聲轉舌呼之），「蜜多」正云弭多（弭迷以反），具足應言：嚩折囉鉢囉（二合）枳孃（二合）播（二）羅弭多素怛纜。

(Phonetic commentary) Huilin's pronunciation says: The correct Sanskrit sound is vajra, translated here as 'vajra'. Regarding prajñā: for 'pra', the original Sanskrit sound is pra (conjunct), taking the rising tone of la with a rolled tongue; being a conjunct, each of the two characters takes half a sound merged into one. The ancient reading 'ban' was an abbreviated error. For 'jñā' (pronounced er-zhe), the correct Sanskrit sound is jñā (sound ji-yi combined with rising-tone ña into a conjunct) merged into one sound (the dhāraṇī in the Shouhu guojie jing has 'jñā', meaning 'wisdom' or 'correct understanding' in Chinese). The ancient reading 'ruo' was an abbreviation. Regarding pāramitā: for 'pā', the correct Sanskrit sound should be pā (prolonged sound of bo-ge); for 'ra', the correct Sanskrit sound should be ra (taking the rising tone of la pronounced with a rolled tongue); for 'mitā', it correctly says mitā (mi pronounced mi-yi). In full, it should be: vajra-prajñā-pāramitā-sūtra.