yuèzhī
又作月氏。國名。在印度之西。史記大宛列傳曰：「月氏在大宛西可二三千里，其南則大夏，西則安息，北則康居也（大宛去長安萬二千五百五十里。月氏在天竺北可七千里）。」漢書西域傳上曰：「大月氏國，治監氏城，去長安萬一千六里。」玄應音義四曰：「月支國，薄佉羅國應是也，在雪山之西北也，或云月氏。」雜寶藏經七曰：「月氏國有王，名栴檀罽尼吒，聞罽賓國尊者阿羅漢字祇夜多有大稱名，思欲相見，即自躬駕，與諸臣從，往造彼國。」原語Kuṣana。
(月支國) The Yuezhi, or 'Indo-Scythians', 月氏 (國) and a country they at one time occupied, i. e. 都貨羅 Tukhara, Tokharestan, or Badakshan. Driven out from the northern curve of the Yellow River by the Huns, circa165 B. C., they conquered Bactria 大夏, the Punjab, Kashmir, 'and the greater part of India. ' Their expulsion from the north of Shansi was the cause of the famous journey of Zhangqian of the Han dynasty and the beginning of Chinese expansion to the north-west. Kanishka, king of the Yuezhi towards the end of the first century A. D., became the great protector and propagator of Buddhism.
Yuezhi; Rouzhi; Tokhara; Tokharian
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