元代僧人沙啰巴名字补证

Supplementary Evidences Concerning the Name of Monk Shaluoba in Yuan Dynasty

元代江浙释教总统沙啰巴的名字此前被考定为藏语shes-rab dpal(慧吉祥)的译音,事实上这很可能是个来自蒙古语的转译词。沙啰巴另外两个迄今未获解读的名字也都与"慧"有关:其中"积宁"音译自12世纪前后的汉语河西方言,源出梵文的jā(慧),"观照"则是汉语,暗指"般若"(慧)。在不同的场合使用不同语言的同义词来称名,这是少数民族古已有之的习惯。

Shaluoba,the Genaral Supervisor of Buddhism in Jiangsu and Zhejing District of Yuan Dynas- ty,whose name was previously identified as a transcription from the Tibetan word shes-rab dpal （wisdom and auspice）,but actually it might be a re-transcription from a Mongolian loan word. Other two undeci- phered names of Shaluoba both related to ＂wisdom＂ ：one of them,Ji-ning,was transcribed from a Sanskrit word j？ d （wisdom） in the Northwest Chinese Dialect around 12th century,while the other,Guanzhao,is a Chinese word suggesting Boruo （wisdom）. It proves to be a traditional custom in Chinese minorities that synonyms from different languages were used for the same name in different occasions respectively.