彌伽釋迦

藏中無其傳。名唯見於譯場署名：本經卷一卷端「烏長國沙門彌伽釋迦譯語」〔T19n0945 0106b11〕，卷十同〔T19n0945 0151b28〕。《宋高僧傳》於極量傳中列之，並注其名：「烏萇國沙門彌伽釋迦〔「釋迦」稍訛，正云「鑠佉」，此曰「雲峯」〕譯語」〔T50n2061 0718c11〕；《貞元新定釋教目錄》作「引伽釋迦」，注同〔T55n2157 0874a23〕。譯語者，居梵漢之間傳其聲者；一部經之成，有此一人，而藏中所記止於一行。本檔照錄其名之異形（彌伽／引伽・烏長／烏萇・釋迦／鑠佉），不正規化。

The canon has no biography of him. His name survives only in the attribution of the translation hall: at the head of fascicle one of this sūtra, "the śramaṇa Meghaśikha of Uḍḍiyāna, interpreter" 〔T19n0945 0106b11〕, and likewise at fascicle ten 〔T19n0945 0151b28〕. The Song Lives of Eminent Monks lists him within the biography of Jiliang and glosses his name: "the śramaṇa Meghaśikha of Uḍḍiyāna [the 'śikha' is slightly corrupt; properly it is 'śākha', which here means 'Cloud Peak'], interpreter" 〔T50n2061 0718c11〕; the Zhenyuan Catalogue writes "Yingaśikha," with the same gloss 〔T55n2157 0874a23〕. The interpreter is the one who stands between Sanskrit and Chinese and carries the sound across; a sūtra came into being with this one man in the room, and the canon records him in a single line. This entry keeps every variant of his name as written and normalizes none.