翻譯名義集 7.11

7.11

【Nālandā】 The *Xiyu ji* states: "In the Tang language, it means 'giving without satiety'. To the south of this saṅghārāma, there is a pond in an āmra grove where a nāga named Nālandā resides; the saṅghārāma was built beside it and took its name from it. According to the true facts, when the Tathāgata in the past practiced the bodhisattva path, he was a great king who established his capital here. Pitying sentient beings and delighting in providing for them generously, contemporaries praised his virtue and called him 'Giving without Satiety'." The Great Song *Biographies of Eminent Monks* states: "The Nālandā Monastery was forty-eight *li* in circumference, with nine temples and a single gate, built by nine kings. Among the saṅghārāmas of the Western Regions, none equaled its vastness!"