一切經音義 70.141

70.141

Śiśumāra (室獸摩羅: shaped like an elephant. In older scriptures and vinayas it is written either 失收摩羅 or 失守摩羅, which are merely shifts in the Sanskrit sound. Translated, it means 'child-killing fish'. The Samantapāsādikā states: 'An alligator, over twenty feet long, with four legs, resembling a soft-shelled crocodile, with extremely sharp teeth; when animals, deer, or people enter the water, biting them cuts them off immediately.' It is found in the land of Guangzhou).