羅什というのは、一体、何を基準に数字を翻訳したのでしょうか。
それとも羅什が見た梵本と Saddharmapundarika,ed.by H. Eern and B. Nanjio, St.-Petersbourg 1912(Bibliotheca Buddica X)(『法華経』上・岩波文庫 P5)とは、記載が違っていたのでしょうか。
もっとも納得がいかないのは冒頭の数字で、羅什訳では「与大比丘衆。万二千人倶」で、岩本訳では「千二百人の僧と一緒にいた」(同 P9)で、いちおう Kern 訳を見ると「with a numerous assemblage of monks, twelve hundred monks」となっています。
28. This universal Lord, chief of kings, who is a (rich) mine of monastic virtues, he, universally worshipped, has reached pure, supreme enlightenment, after plying his course (of duty) during many hundreds of Æons.
29. At one time standing to the right, at another to the left of the Chief Amitabha, whom he is fanning, he, by dint of meditation, like a phantom, in all regions honours the Gina.
30. In the west, where the pure world Sukhakara is situated, there the Chief Amitabha, the tamer of men, has his fixed abode.
31. There no women are to be found; there sexual intercourse is absolutely unknown; there the sons of Gina, on springing into existence by apparitional birth, are sitting in the undefiled cups of lotuses.
32. And the Chief Amitabha himself is seated on a throne in the pure and nice cup of a lotus, and shines as the Sala-king.
33. The Leader of the world, whose store of merit has been praised, has no equal in the triple world. O supreme of men, let us soon become like thee!
田村師によれば、「オランダのケルン(H. Kern)と日本の南条文雄師が、デーヴァ・ナーガリー文字でもって法華原典を出版した。これは、ネパール系諸本に中央アジア系のペトロフスキー本などで校訂…英訳を試み、1884年にオックスフォードから“The Saddharmapundarika; or, The Lotus of the True Law”」(同P58)
『あらゆる方角に顔を向けたほとけ(CHAPTER CALLED THAT OF THE ALL-SIDED ONE, CONTAINING A DESCRIPTION OF THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF AVALOKITESVARA.)でも登場する世自在王(Lokeshvararaja)は Siva に起源を求める説もあるわけです。