金光明最勝王經疏 3.278

3.278

二釋名者，梵云颯拏達利舍拏阿鉢底提舍那。颯拏此云夢，達利舍拏此云見，阿鉢底此云罪，提舍那此云說。人有所犯須向他說，罪即得除，故云說罪。而言懺悔者，順古人翻，非為正說。若云懺悔，梵音云懺摩，義當此云容恕或愧謝。或云懺摩，略此云知厭離，亦義云改悔。言懺悔者，音訛略也，正應云〈夢見說罪品〉。夢之見、罪之說，夢者是總、見者是別，以別屬總，云夢之見，云〈夢見說罪品〉。

Second, as for explaining the title: in Sanskrit it is called svapna-darśana-āpatti-deśanā. Svapna here is translated as 'dream' (夢); darśana here is translated as 'seeing' (見); āpatti here is translated as 'transgression' (罪); deśanā here is translated as 'declaring' (說). When a person has committed a violation, they must declare it to others, and the transgression is then eliminated; hence it is called 'declaring transgressions'. As for the word 'confession' (懺悔), this conforms to the ancients' translation and is not the correct rendition. If one says 'confession' (懺悔), the Sanskrit sound is kṣama, whose meaning here corresponds to 'forgiveness' (容恕) or 'apology' (愧謝). Or it is said that kṣama, abbreviated here, means 'knowing revulsion and detachment', and its meaning is also 'repenting and changing'. Calling it 'confession' (懺悔) is an erroneous and abbreviated transliteration; correctly it should be called 'Chapter on Declaring Transgressions Seen in a Dream'. The 'seeing' of the 'dream' and the 'declaring' of the 'transgression': 'dream' is general and 'seeing' is specific; subordinating the specific to the general, one says 'seen in a dream', calling it 'Chapter on Declaring Transgressions Seen in a Dream'.