翻譯名義集 2.80

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【Bāla】 In the Sui language, 'hair-path' (maodao). This means that their practicing mind is unsettled, just like light hair floating east and west with the wind. The Wei translation of the Vajracchedikā says: 'ordinary beings of the hair-path.' Master Huanying says: "In Sanskrit, vāla means 'hair.' Bāla means 'fool.' The Sanskrit sounds being close, translators made an error. The correct expression is bālapṛthagjana, translated here as 'foolish ordinary being'; foolish and dark, they lack wisdom. They only give rise to views of self and do not generate the untainted [path]. They are also called infant-foolish ordinary beings. 'Ordinary being' (fanfu) is a translation by meaning. The Sanskrit bālapṛthagjana means 'child differing-born,' because being foolish like a child, they differ from the birth of sages."