一切經音義 27.420

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長表金剎（梵云舍摩奢那此云墳[(┐@一)/豕]西域𣦸者或遺禽獸收骨燒之有埋地下於上立表累甎石等似窄堵波但形卑小今此長表即是金剎非彼表也梵云掣多羅彼土更無別幡竿即於塔覆鉢柱頭懸旛今云剎者語聲雖訛以金為之長而有表故言金剎也）。

A tall marker of a golden pillar (長表金剎: in Sanskrit it is called *śmaśāna*, translated here as a burial mound. In the Western Regions, the dead are sometimes cast out to birds and beasts, or their bones are gathered and cremated, or they are buried underground, with markers erected above by piling up bricks and stones, resembling a stūpa but humble and small in shape. Here, this 'tall marker' is precisely a golden pillar/spire (*kṣetra*), not that type of [burial] marker. In Sanskrit it is called *chattra*; in that land there is no other flagstaff, so banners are hung directly atop the mast on the hemispherical dome of the stūpa. What is now called a *ch剎* [kṣetra] is phonetically corrupted; being made of gold, and tall with a marker, it is called a 'golden kṣetra').