一切經音義 18.203

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般遮羅（上半安反梵云般遮唐云五數名也羅名為執此乃國名王之美稱也言彼國王性多慈愛縱有犯死刑者不忍殺之但縛五體送於壙野山林時人嘉之因為國号也）。

Pañcāla (般遮羅: the first [character] is ban-an fan. In Sanskrit, pañca [般遮] is the Tang language word for the number 'five'; la means 'to seize'. This is the name of a country and an honorific title for its king. It means that the king of that country was by nature deeply compassionate; even when someone committed a capital crime, he could not bear to execute them, but merely bound their five limbs and sent them to the wilderness or mountain forests. People of the time praised this and consequently took it as the country's name).