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A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms

Note 3 — Chapter XXXII · LEGEND OF KING ASOKA IN A FORMER BIRTH, AND HIS NARAKA.

James Legge translation

(3) I prefer to retain the Sanskrit term here, instead of translating the Chinese text by “Earth’s prison {.} {.},” or “a prison in the earth;” the name for which has been adopted generally by Christian missionaries in China for gehenna and hell.

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