一切經音義 72.207

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天竺（或言身毒或言賢豆皆訛也正言印度印度名曰月月有千名斯一稱也良以彼土聖賢相繼開悟群生照臨如月因以名也一說云賢豆本名因陀羅婆陀那此云主處謂天帝也當以天帝所護故世久号之耳）。

天竺 [India] (Sometimes called 身毒 [Shendu] or 賢豆 [Xiandou], which are both corruptions. Properly it is India [Indu]. 'Indu' is the name of the moon; the moon has a thousand names, and this is one of them. It is called so precisely because in that land holy and wise beings succeeded one another, awakening sentient beings and illuminating them from above like the moon. Another explanation says that Xiandou was originally named *Indravadana*, which translates to 'abode of the lord,' referring to the Lord of the Gods [Śakra]; because it was protected by the Lord of the Gods, it was named so by the world for ages past).