一切經音義 48.14

48.14

Pudgala (Examining the Sanskrit original: pu means "repeatedly," dga means "destinies," and la means "taking." It means "repeatedly taking destinies," referring to repeatedly going back and forth among the destinies. Older texts also wrote fugala, translating its name as "entering," saying that shedding heavenly aggregates one enters human aggregates, shedding human aggregates one enters animal aggregates, which is close to it. In the scriptures it is written fugala or fujiala, or futujiaye, which are dialectal variations of the Sanskrit. Translators all translated it as "human" [ren], saying that it is a general name for the six destinies. This is a great error. A "human" also implies having intent [yi], seeming to mean thinking much, possessing wisdom; hence one is called a "human." Ghosts and animals have no such thing; how could they be called "humans"? These are all errors of the translators).