釋迦

(釋迦, 释迦)

Śākya. the clan or family of the Buddha, said to be derived from (sa) śāka, vegetables, but intp. in Chinese as powerful, strong, and explained by [lang id =1028]能 powerful, also erroneously by [lang id =1028]仁charitable, which belongs rather to association with Śākyamuni. The clan, which is said to have wandered hither from the delta of the Indus, occupied a district of a few thousand square miles lying on the slopes of the Nepalese hills and on the plains to the south. Its capital was Kapilavastu. At the time of Buddha the clan was under the suzerainty of Kośala, an adjoining kingdom Later Buddhists, in order to surpass Brahmans, invented a fabulous line of five kings of the Vivartakalpa headed by Mahāsammata [lang id =1028]大三末多; these were followed by five (sa) cakravartī, the first being Mūrdhaja [lang id =1028]頂生王; after these came nineteen kings, the first being Cetiya [lang id =1028]捨帝, the last Mahādeva [lang id =1028]大天; these were succeeded by dynasties of 5,000, 7,000, 8,000, 9,000, 10,000, 15,000 kings; after which long Gautama opens a line of 1,100 kings, the last, Ikṣvāku, reigning at Potala. With Ikṣvāku the Śākyas are said to have begun. His four sons reigned at Kapilavastu. 'Śākyamuni was one of his descendants in the seventh generation.' Later, after the destruction of Kapilavastu by Virūḍhaka, four survivors of the family founded the kingdoms of Udyana, Bamyam, Himatala, and Sāmbī. Eitel.

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梵語釋迦， 華言能仁。 本行經云： 甘蔗王第一妃善賢， 生子名長壽； 第二妃生四子， 一名炬面， 二名金色， 三名象眾， 四名別成。 時善賢妃欲立長壽， 白王擯遣四子出國。 至雪山北， 住直樹林中。 其第四子別成為王， 自立城居， 以德化人， 即為強國。 父王追悔， 遣使往召， 辭過不還。 父王歎曰： 我子釋迦。 遂以德為姓， 故云釋迦也。

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釋迦牟尼佛世尊。