Compendium of Materia Medica
The "jiao" is also claimed to be equivalent to Sanskrit (modern Chinese pronunciation "gongpiluo") in the 7th Century Buddhist dictionary "Yiqiejing yinyi". The same Sanskrit equivalent is repeated in the widely used "Bencao Gangmu" or "Compendium of Materia Medica". In Buddhist texts this word occurs as names of divine beings, and the Sanskrit term in question is actually "kumbhīra" (). As a common noun "kumbhīra" means "crocodile".