一切經音義 7.13

English (machine translation) 7.13

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7.13

琰魔王 (King Yama): The Sanskrit name of the ghost king who presides over the nether underworld. In older translations he was called King Yanluo (閻羅王); in sūtra texts written 剡 (fanqie 尸染反) 魔, these are all corrupt abbreviations and incorrect. The correct Sanskrit sound is Yamarāja (琰閻奄反摩); the ancients translated it as 'the Impartial One' (平等).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese