旧きゅう訳やく

noun

old translation; earlier translation

General term for a translation done in the past, often contrasted with a newer version.

• この聖せい書しょの旧きゅう訳やくは、言こと葉ば遣づかいが古ふるめかしい。

  The old translation of this Bible has archaic wording.

noun

pre-Xuanzang Chinese translation (Buddhism)

Only with reading くやく

Buddhist technical term for Chinese translations made before Xuanzang (7th century), usually read くやく.

• 仏ぶっ教きょう学がくでは、玄げん奘じょう以い前ぜんの漢かん訳やくを旧訳くやくと呼よぶ。

  In Buddhist studies, pre-Xuanzang Chinese translations are called 旧訳 (くやく).