一切經音義 36.140

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(In this fascicle the sūtra text has few difficult characters. Although it explains the thirty-four Sanskrit characters, expounding and clarifying their character meanings over and over, all of them are deep and esoteric. It also explains the homa rituals: first explaining the forty-four kinds of worldly fire rituals and names of fire deities, and then explaining the twelve inconceivable supramundane fires and the appearances of their fire deities. These have already been fully glossed and explained in the Zhenyan ji [Collection of Mantras]. Because this sūtra employs Chinese characters for Sanskrit words without being phonetically exact, they are not given pronunciation here.)