Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 5: Miscellaneous Later EssaysMüller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
Religion
Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 5: Miscellaneous Later Essays
Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
Comparative linguistics; Folklore; Literature -- History and criticism; Mythology; Religions
78 Generally identified with the Getæ, but without sufficient proof.
79 Translated by Mr. Bunyiu Nanjio.
80 The golden color or suvarnavar_n_atâ is one of the thirty-two marks
of a Buddha, recognized both in the Southern and Northern schools
(Burnouf, _Lotus_, 579).
81 This name is written in various ways, Ka-shio-ma-tô-giya,
Ka-shio-ma-tô, Shio-ma-tô, Ka-tô, Ma-tô. In the Fan-i-ming-i-tsi
(vol. iii. fol. 4 a), it is said “that K. was a native of Central
India, and a Brâhman by caste. Having been invited by the Chinese
envoy, Tsâi-yin, he came to China, saw the Emperor, and died in
Lo-yang, the capital.” Of _K_û-fa-lan it is said (_l. c._ vol. iii.
fol. 4) that he was a native of Central India, well versed in
Vinaya. When invited to go to China, the King would not let him
depart. He left secretly, and arrived in China after Kâsyapa. They
translated the Sûtra in forty-two sections together. After Kâsyapa
died, _K_û-fa-lan translated five Sûtras.
82 See Vasala-sutta (in Nipâta-sutta), _v._ 22.
83 Fa is the Buddhist equivalent for friar.
84 Mr. B. Nanjio informs me that both in China and Japan Buddhist
priests adopt either _K_û, the last character of Tien-_k_û, India,
or Shih, the first character of Shih-kia—_i. e._ Sâkya—as their
surname.
85 L. Feer, _Sutra en 42 articles_, p. xxvii. _Le Dhammapada par F. Hû,
suivi du Sutra en 42 articles_, par Léon Feer, 1878, p. xxiv.
86 In Beal’s _Catalogue_ this name is spelt An-shi-ko, An-shi-kao, and
Ngan-shai-ko.
87 His translations occur in Beal’s _Catalogue_, pp. 31, 35, 37, 38, 40
(_bis_), 41 (_bis_), 42 (_bis_), 43, 45, 46, 47, 49, 50, 51 (_ter_),
52 (_bis_), 54, 70, 88, 95 (_bis_). In the K’ai-yuen-lu it is stated
that he translated 99 works in 115 fascicles.
88 Wû, comprising _K_eh-kiang and other parts, with its capital in what
is now Sû-_k_au, was the southern one of the Three Kingdoms.
Sun-_kh_üan was its first sovereign.
89 The northern of the Three Kingdoms, with its capital latterly in
Lo-yang.
90 See Beal, _Catalogue_, p. 5.
91 This name, _K_û-fâ-hu, is generally re-translated as Dharmaraksha.
_K_û is the second character in Tien-_k_û, the name of India, and
this character was used as their surname by many Indian priests
while living in China. In that case their Sanskrit names were mostly
translated into two Chinese characters: as Fâ, (law = dharma), hu
(protection = raksha).—B. N.
92 According to Mr. Beal (Fahian, p. xxiii.), this _K_û-fâ-hu, with the
help of other Shâmans, translated no less than 165 texts, and among
them the Lalita-vistara (Pou-yao-king), the Nirvâ_n_a Sûtra, and the
Suvar_n_a-prabhâsa-Sûtra (265-308). The K’ai-yuen-lu assigns to him
275 works, in 354 fascicles.
93 Edkins, _l. c._ Beal, _Catalogue_, p. 17; 14.
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