一切經音義 16.8

16.8

貘豹（上音陌山海經云南山多貘豹郭璞曰貘似羆而小黃黑色毛有光澤能食銅鐵出蜀中爾雅貘白豹也說文從豸經文多脫此貘字今勘梵本有故加之准文勢合有下包貌反說文獸也似虎團文黑花而小於虎亦從豸豸音雉豹並形聲字也）。

貘豹 (Mòbào, tapirs and leopards: the upper character has the sound mò. The Shanhai jing says: 'The Southern Mountains have many tapirs and leopards.' Guo Pu says: 'The tapir resembles a brown bear but is smaller, yellow-black in colour, with lustrous hair; it can eat copper and iron, and comes from Shu.' The Erya says: 'The mò is a white leopard.' The Shuowen says: 'It takes its classifier from 豸.' Sūtra texts often omit this character mò; having now checked the Sanskrit text and found it present, it has been added, as in accordance with the textual phrasing it ought to be there. The lower character has the fanqie Bao-mao [bào]. The Shuowen says: 'A beast that resembles a tiger, with round patterns of black rosettes, but smaller than a tiger. It also takes its classifier from 豸.' The pronunciation of 豸 is zhì. Leopard is a phono-semantic character).