Tārā，又作呾囉。譯曰眼，眼瞳。蘇婆呼經下曰：「多羅，此云妙目精。」大日經疏五曰：「多羅，是眼義。」不空羂索心咒王經中曰：「多羅，周云瞳子。」梵語雜名曰：「眼睫砂吃芻鉢呾囉。」演密鈔七曰：「呾囉，此譯云眼。」 Tāla，樹名。譯曰岸樹，高竦樹。玄應音義二曰：「多羅按西域記云：其樹形如椶櫚，極高者七八十尺，果熟則赤，如大石榴，人多食之。東印度界其樹最多。」慧苑音義上曰：「其形似椶櫚樹也，體堅如鐵，葉長稠密，縱多時大雨其葉蔭處乾若屋下，又或翻為高竦樹也。」此樹幹中斷，則不再生芽，依之而中譬比丘犯波羅夷之重罪。楞嚴經六曰：「是一顛迦銷滅佛種，如人以刀斷多羅木，佛記是人永殞善根，無復知見。」俱舍論曰：「大師此中立如是喻，如多羅樹，若被斷頭，必不復能生長廣大，苾芻等犯重亦然。」
tārā, in the sense of starry, or scintillation; Tāla, for the fan-palm; Tara, from 'to pass over', a ferry, etc. Tārā, starry, piercing, the eye, the pupil; the last two are both Sanskrit and Chinese definitions; it is a term applied to certain female deities and has been adopted especially by Tibetan Buddhism for certain devīs of the Tantric school. The origin of the term is also ascribed totarmeaning 'to cross', i. e. she who aids to cross the sea of mortality. Getty, 19-27. The Chinese derivation is the eye; the tara devīs; either asśaktior independent, are little known outside Lamaism. Tāla is the palmyra, or fan-palm, whose leaves are used for writing and known as 具多 Pei-to, pattra. The tree is described as 70 or 80 feet high, with fruit like yellow rice-seeds; theborassus eabelliformis; a measure of 70 feet. Taras, from to cross over, also means a ferry, and a bank, or the other shore. Also 呾囉.
一多羅 (一)為梵語 tāla 之音譯。指多羅樹。又作岸樹、高竦樹。盛產於印度、緬甸、錫蘭、馬德拉斯等海岸之砂地，樹高約二十二公尺，為棕櫚科之熱帶喬木。其葉長廣，平滑堅實，自古即用於書寫經文，稱為貝多羅葉；果熟則赤，狀如石榴，可食。又此樹幹若中斷，則不再生芽，故於諸經中多以之譬喻比丘犯波羅夷之重罪。〔法華經卷五分別功德品、集異門足論卷四、大唐西域記卷十一、玄應音義卷二、卷二十四、慧苑音義卷上〕（參閱「貝多羅葉」3793） (二)梵名 Tārā。意譯作眼、眼瞳、妙目精、極度。指多羅菩薩。此菩薩因從觀世音菩薩眼中之光明而出，故得此名。（參閱「多羅菩薩」2935） (三)為梵語 patra（音譯作鉢多羅）之略稱。與「鉢」同義。指鉢盂。多以銀、白銅等鑄造之，呈扁平狀。於釋尊聖誕日（浴佛節）時，即將佛像安置於多羅之中央，以香湯灌浴之。p2934
多羅 秦言岸。大品吒字門，入諸法驅不可得故。論曰：若聞多字，即知一切法此彼岸不可得。華嚴唱侘（恥加切）字時，名以無我法開曉眾生。疏云：即相驅迫性。謂無我曉之，即為驅迫。
譯曰重也