一切經音義 59.47

59.47

Monkey River (獼猴江; the Sanskrit word markaṭa [未迦吒] means "monkey"; hrada [賀邏䭾] means "pool"; it is beside the Āmrapālī grove in Vaiśālī; formerly, monkeys assembled together to dig a pool for the Buddha; the present use of "river" is an interpretive phrasing by the translator, just as the Gaṅgā River is also rendered as "Gaṅgā River" [恒江]).