[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [釋氏要覽](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2127) › 1.17 # 釋氏要覽 1.17 釋氏要覽 1.17 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2127.1.17) 梵語正云瞿答摩。又云瞿曇彌此云地最勝。謂除天外在地人類中最勝。故經云。昔佛於劫初作國王禪位。師瞿曇僊修道。常於一園游止。為賊所害。彼僊乃殯尸取血。泥為兩團。用器盛之。置於左右。呪之滿十月。左化為男。右化為女。乃命氏。瞿曇始也。 > Properly called Gautama in Sanskrit, also called Gautamī, translated here as 'Supreme on Earth'. This means that, aside from the devas, he was the most supreme among humankind on earth. Therefore a sūtra states: In the past, at the beginning of the kalpa, the Buddha was a king who abdicated his throne and took the ṛṣi Gautama as his master to cultivate the Way. He always roamed and rested in a garden, where he was murdered by bandits. That ṛṣi then buried the corpse, collected the blood, fashioned it into two lumps of clay, placed them in vessels, set them on the left and right, and chanted over them for a full ten months. The left transformed into a boy and the right transformed into a girl. Thereupon, the clan was named Gautama, which was the beginning. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2127.1.16) - [Next: 1.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2127.1.18) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2127.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2127~en-mt.1.17) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2127.1.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2127.1.17) · Pramāṇa