一切經音義 47.436

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殑伽沙（梵言渠興反河名也從無熱惱池東靣象口流出入東海也其沙至細與水同流以手掬水沙滿手中急把於沙還隨水出經中多此喻也舊言恒河沙者訛也）。

Ganges sands 殑伽沙 (Sanskrit: *qú-xīng* fanqie; name of a river; flowing out of the elephant mouth on the eastern side of Lake Anavatapta and entering the Eastern Ocean; its sands are extremely fine and flow with the water; if one scoops up water in one's hand, sand fills the hand, but when squeezed tightly, the sand flows back out with the water; this metaphor frequently appears in the sūtras; the older rendering "sands of the Heng river" [恒河沙] is an error).