釋迦 [py] shìjiā [wg] shih-chia [ko] 서가 sŏga [ja] シャカ shaka ||| Śākya, the name of a royal clan in India, from which the historical Buddha was born, and therefore he is called Śākyamuni 釋迦牟尼, the sage of the Śākya clan. "Śākya" means "endowed with power."
釋迦牟尼佛世尊。
Śākya. the clan or family of the Buddha, said to be derived from śāka, vegetables, but intp. in Chinese as powerful, strong, and explained by 能 powerful, also erroneously by 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 大三末多; these were followed by five cakravartī, the first being Mūrdhaja 頂生王; after these came nineteen kings, the first being Cetiya 捨帝, the last Mahādeva 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 Iksvāku 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 Virūdhaka, four survivors of the family founded the kingdoms of Udyana, Bamyam, Himatala, and Sāmbī. Eitel.
梵名 Śākya。意譯作能仁。釋迦牟尼所屬種族之名稱，為佛陀五姓之一。又為釋迦牟尼之簡稱。釋迦族為古印度民族之一，屬武士階級，為雅利安民族中日種系（梵 Sūryavajśa）甘蔗王（梵 Iksvāku）之後裔。佛陀出身於此族，因而稱為釋迦牟尼（梵 Śākya-muni，即釋迦族之聖者
śākya, śākya-muni, śākya-nāyaka, śākya-rṣabha; śakra.
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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