一切經音義 50.128

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Gāthā (Sanskrit; here translated as regular verse, or called verse summing up words. What is composed by the holy sages, regardless of whether it is a restatement in verse or the number of characters, that which has four lines forming a stanza is called a gāthā. According to the method of reckoning sūtras in the Western countries, thirty-two syllables are counted as one gāthā. Saying gatuo is an error; the old rendering ji is also a corruption of gāthā).