一切經音義 6.40

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6.40

採菽氏 ("Bean-Gathering Clan [Maudgalyāyana]": an ancient translation of the Sanskrit Mahāmaudgalyāyana, which was an imprecise abbreviation. The correct Sanskrit is Mahā-Maudgalyāyana; in Tang speech this is Great Bean-Gathering Clan, popularly called Mung-Bean Master, which was the title of an ancient ṛṣi. Maudgalyāyana is the lineage of this ṛṣi; he is also called Kolika, or Kolita, or Kolida, which are all names of the same person.)

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese