一切經音義 18.160

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Tiṣya (底沙: ding-yi fan; also called Puṣya [補沙]; in the Tang language: "the Ghost lunar mansion" [gui su]. Namely, the person was born on the day ruled by this asterism. In the Western regions, they record days according to the twenty-eight lunar mansions, simply naming [a person] based on the mansion where the moon is located. The older sūtras say Zhi-shu [蛭數], which is this [same name]).