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Chinese
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit रामायण (rāmāyaṇa).
Watanabe Kaigyoku (1907) attested that the oldest mention of "Ramayana" in Chinese Buddhist writing is in a translation of Mahāvibhāṣā by 7th-century monk Xuanzang (aka Yuan Chwang), as 羅摩衍拏 (MC la ma yenX nrae).[1]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
羅摩衍那
- (Hinduism) Ramayana
References
- ^ Watanabe, K. (1907 January) “The Oldest Record of the Ramayana in a Chinese Buddhist Writing”, in The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Cambridge University Press, page 99