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# 翻譯名義集 4.44

翻譯名義集 4.44

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [4.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2131.4.44)

【昆勒】此云篋藏。《大論》云：「昆勒有三百二十萬言，佛在世時，大迦旃延之所造。佛滅度後，人壽轉減，憶識力少，不能廣誦。諸得道人，撰為三十八萬四千言。」論未到此土。

> \[Peṭaka\] This means "basket-treasury". The Da zhidu lun says: "The Peṭaka has 3,200,000 words; it was composed by Mahākātyāyana while the Buddha was in the world. After the Buddha's nirvāṇa, human lifespans decreased and memory capacity weakened, so people could not recite it at length. Those who had attained the Path compiled it into 384,000 words." The treatise has not reached this land.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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