동음이의 음역어의 난맥상 분석 : 가라를 중심으로

Abstract

This paper focuses on just a word of the transliterated Korean Gara. The main contents are ‘the analysis on the problem of transliteration’ and ‘the analysis of transliterated Korean Gara on the basis of the Chinese Buddhist Tripiṭaka Collection’ and ‘the analysis on the chaotic state of the original words and meaning of the transliterated Korean Gara’. There are too many homonyms, homophones, polysemies in the Chinese version of the Buddhist Tripiṭaka Collection. Because of this fact, an exact undertanding of its meaning, in context, was difficult to determine. What is worse, there were many mistranslations between the Chinese version of the Buddhist Tripitaka Collection to its Korean counterpart. However, there are a number of examples that demonstrate that these mistranslations occur frequently. This writer will provide several examples to support it in this paper. This writer made an analysis of the sanskrit or pāli words of Gara in the translated Korean Buddhist Tripiṭaka Collection which is based on the Chinese version of the Buddhist Tripiṭaka. This was a difficult process, either. Because many texts of the original Chinese Tripiṭaka were scattered and lost, it was impossible to resolve the Gara’s original meaning in the Tripiṭaka from the transliterated words. In consequence, this writer resolved the meaning of seventy-six kinds of Gara in the translated Korean Buddhist Tripiṭaka Collection. She has disclosed meanings of seventy-six examples of Gara. It was caused by homonyms, homophones and polysemies. The seventy-six meanings of Gara belonged to thirty-three different words of sanskrit and pāli. The thirty-three original words of Gara were translated in eighteen transliterated Chinese words. In conclusion, the writer suggests four methods to disambiquate the hypernyms of Gara.