續一切經音義 3.142

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天竺（相承音竹准梵聲合音篤古云身毒或云賢豆新云印度皆訛轉也正云印特伽羅此翻為月也月有千名斯乃一稱西域記云良以彼土佛日既隱賢聖誕生相繼開悟導利群生如月照臨故以為名也）。

India (天竺: traditionally pronounced Tianzhu. Following Sanskrit phonetics, it should properly be pronounced Tiandu. Formerly called Shendu or Xiandou; newly called Yindu. These are all corrupt transliterations. Properly it should be Indukara [印特伽羅], which is translated here as 'moon' [月]. The moon has a thousand names; this is merely one of them. The Xiyu ji says: "Because in that land, after the sun of the Buddha had set, sage after sage was born to awaken, guide, and benefit the masses of sentient beings, shining over them just as the moon does, it was therefore named after it").