一切經音義 47.371

47.371

異生性（梵言婆羅必栗託[佔-口+乙]那。婆羅此云愚。必栗託此言異。[佔-口+乙]那此名生。應作愚異生。言愚癡闇冥無有智慧。但起我見不生無漏故也。亦言小兒別生以癡如小兒不同聖生故論中作小兒凡夫是也。又名嬰癡凡夫亦云嬰兒凡夫。凡夫者義譯也。廣雅云凡輕也輕微之稱也。舊經中或言毛道凡夫。或云毛頭凡夫。案梵本毛名縛羅。愚名婆羅。當由嚩婆聲之相近致斯訛謬譯人之失也。[佔-口+乙]音魚訖反。嚩音縛佉反）。

Yishengxing 異生性 (the state of being an ordinary person / pṛthagjanatva: in Sanskrit bālapṛthagjana. Bāla means here 'foolish'. Pṛthag means here 'different / separate'. Jana is here called 'born / living'. It should properly be rendered 'foolish differently born' (yu yisheng 愚異生). It means they are foolish and darkened, devoid of wisdom, giving rise only to the self-view and not producing the uncorrupted [dharmas]. It is also called 'infants separately born', because being foolish like infants they are not like the birth of the noble ones; hence in the treatises they are designated as 'infant commoners' (xiao'er fanfu 小兒凡夫). They are also named 'infantile foolish commoners' (yingchi fanfu 嬰癡凡夫) or 'infant commoners' (ying'er fanfu 嬰兒凡夫). 'Commoner' (fanfu 凡夫) is a translation by meaning. The Guangya says: 'Fán 凡 means light,' a designation of what is slight and lowly. In older scriptures they were sometimes called 'hair-path commoners' (maodao fanfu 毛道凡夫) or 'hair-head commoners' (maotou fanfu 毛頭凡夫). Examining the Sanskrit text, hair is called vāla, and foolish is called bāla; this must have been due to the close proximity of the sounds va and ba, leading to this error, a fault of the translators. The character [jan] has the sound yú-qì fanqie. The character vā has the sound fù-qū fanqie).