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室獸摩羅（梵語魚名也舊經律中或作失收摩羅梵音訛轉耳譯云煞子魚也善見律云鰐魚名也形如象長二丈餘有四足似鼉齒極利所有畜𡃣麞鹿入水齧腰即斷廣州土地有之）。

室獸摩羅 "Śiśumāra" (Sanskrit name of a creature. In older scriptures and vinayas it is sometimes written 失收摩羅, which is merely a corrupted Sanskrit pronunciation. Translated, it means "child-killing fish". The Samantapāsādikā (Shanxian lü) says: "The name of a crocodile (alligator); shaped like an elephant, over twenty feet long, with four legs, resembling a soft-shelled turtle/alligator, with extremely sharp teeth. Whenever livestock, river deer, or roe deer enter the water, it bites their waists, instantly snapping them in two. It exists in the territory of Guangzhou").