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右上所音有部雜律文字多有差誤者。蓋以翻譯之時執筆者隨聞便上不根其義也故開元釋教錄云。義淨法師於正譯之餘又於說一切有部譯出諸跋渠約六七十卷。未遑𠜂覆遽入泥洹。斯文遂寑即今續音者是其本也。恐後覽者不知元始返恠希麟[打-丁+(企-止+(巢-果))]非字誤故此序引云。

In the miscellaneous Vinaya texts of the Sarvāstivāda section glossed above, many characters contain discrepancies and errors. This is because at the time of translation, those who held the brush simply wrote down what they heard without examining the meaning. Thus the Kaiyuan shijiao lu states: "Beyond his formal translations, Master Yijing translated various vargas from the Mūlasarvāstivāda, amounting to some sixty to seventy fascicles. Before he had leisure to revise and review them, he abruptly entered nirvāṇa. These texts were subsequently set aside, and the present continuation of pronunciations is based on those manuscripts." Fearing that future readers might not know their origins and might conversely blame Xilin for picking out non-existent character errors, this preface is cited here.