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Cina，又作脂那、至那、斯那、真丹、振旦、震旦、真那、振丹、脂難、旃丹。宋史曰：「天竺表來。譯云：伏願支那皇帝，福壽圓滿。舊說秦始皇統一中國，聲教遠被外國人，因稱我國為秦，支那即秦音之轉。」玄應音義四曰：「振旦或言真丹，並非正音，應言支那，此云漢國也。又無正翻，但神州之總名也。」善見律二曰：「摩訶勒棄多至史那世界國。」注曰：「是漢地也。」史者誤。乃臾那（Yona）之臾，指希臘人種（Ionian）而言。漢地也之注，為支那注釋者之誤。西域記五曰：「當此東北數百萬里，印度所謂摩訶至那國是也。」同十八曰：「或作震旦脂那，今作支那。」慧苑音義下曰：「此翻為思惟，以其國人多所思慮，多所制作，故以為名，即今漢國是也。」
指那, 真丹, 至那, 斯那, 振旦, 震旦, 真那, 振丹, 脂難, 旃丹; 摩訶至那 Cina; Maha-cina. The name by which China is referred to in the laws of Manu (which assert that the Chinese were degenerate Kṣatriya), in the Mahābharata, and in Buddhist works. This name may have been derived from families ruling in western China under such titles as 晉 Chin at Fen-chou in Shansi 1106-376 B. C., 陳 Ch'en in Honan 1122-479 B. C., 秦 Ch'in in Shensi as early as the ninth century B. C., and to this latter dynasty the designation is generally attributed.
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