Sindhu

Japanese: Sindhu
Sindhu

...The 7th century Chinese monk Xuanzang stated that the name "Tenjiku" was a mispronunciation, and that it should be called "Indonesia" according to the correct pronunciation, and since the Tang dynasty, the name "Indonesia" has mainly been used. The original language of the group of transliterations used to represent India in ancient China is Sindhu (pronounced Hindu, Indos in Greek), which comes from the name of a river. There is also a theory that "Tenjiku" is a variant of the pronunciation of "Shindoku" (body poison), which became "Tiandu," and then the word "du" was further variant to become "Jiku."...

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Sindhu" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…7世紀の中国僧玄奘はこの〈天竺〉の称が異議糺紛(きゆうふん)であるとして,正音にしたがって〈印度〉というべきことを述べており,唐代以後は主として〈印度〉の名称が用いられた。中国で古くインドを表した音写語群のもとの言語としては,川の名に由来するシンドゥSindhu(なまってヒンドゥ,ギリシア語ではインドス)があげられる。それらのうち〈天竺〉は〈身毒〉の音が転じて〈天篤〉となり,さらに篤の語が転じて竺となったとみる説もある。…

※「Sindhu」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

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