一切經音義 47.69

47.69

踰繕那 [yojana] (Sanskrit; the second character is pronounced with the fanqie 市 + 戰 [shàn]; also called 踰闍那; rendered here as 'union' or 'fitting'. Reckoned as fitting such an amount of measure, corresponding to a postal relay station in this land; it is a single day's march of a sage king from antiquity. Note that in the Western countries, a yojana also has larger and smaller sizes: some say thirty li, some forty li. In the past, forty li has generally been adopted. In older sūtras and treatises, it was written as 由延, also as 由旬, or as 俞旬; all are corrupt abbreviations).