翻譯名義集 4.44

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4.44

[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.

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翻譯名義集 — 法雲, Classical Chinese