一切經音義 48.45

48.45

Gaṅgā (其升 [qí-shēng] fanqie. Said to come from heaven, because their non-Buddhist texts saw it emerging from a high place and considered it to come from heaven. In fact, according to the Buddhist sūtras, this river emerges from the elephant mouth to the east of Lake Anavatapta and flows into the eastern sea. Older texts saying Heng River, or Ga River, or writing Hengjia River, are all erroneous).