- 甘蔗
- Sugar-cane, symbol of many things. A tr. of Ikṣvāku, one of the surnames of Śākyamuni, from a legend that one of his ancestors was born from a sugar-cane.* * *本行經云: 大茆艸王(即小瞿曇)得成王仙, 壽命極長。 老不能行時, 諸弟子出外乞食, 恐師有虎狼之患, 遂以艸籠盛之, 懸於樹上。 獵人遙見, 謂彼是鳥, 乃射之。 滴血於地, 生二甘蔗, 日炙開剖, 一出童男, 一出童女。 大臣聞之, 迎歸王宮。 養育長成, 男名善生。 以王種故, 遂立為王, 號甘蔗。 後裔相承為姓, 故云甘蔗也。
Dictionary of Buddhist terms. 2013.