As Lydia Chen points out, this suggests that the anuruddha was similar in shape to the ju-i, which was already in common usage. "Ju-i were widely used in China long before the Eastern Han dynasty (25-220) when Buddhism spread to China," notes Chen.
經文翻譯者將它翻成如意，陳夏生據此推斷「阿那律」必然與中國如意的形狀相似，且當時一般人使用已相當普遍，「早在東漢佛教傳入中國之前，中國就已經普遍使用如意了」，她說。