And We Thought WE Were Weird…

Our
good blogging buddy Sanskritboy reports spending his Saturday afternoons
translating dhaeraaaes and laughing at the ineptitude of some poor
Chinese language nerds who died 1500
years ago!

Not only have they incorrectly divided the compound Kambalvottara as
Kambal + vottara, they have taken the eteu ("in these")
from the Sanskrit, translated it literally as ??, and misconstrued
it as an independent Naga King!

And yes, this is how I spend my Sunday afternoons. Laughing at the silly
mistakes of 6th century Chinese translations. =)

We too are rolling on the floor laughing, Ryan…

from Adventures in Buddhology