一切經音義 26.455

26.455

重綫塼（綫私箭反綖字非也塼止緣反此謂織簾之家皆斫眾多破塼形如鼓子纏綫於上以為簾經隨其多少織簾之時行行在椽上累然狀如脊骨以喻如來六年苦行形體枯瘦故脊骨連現如重綫塼也重取去聲也）。

Layered thread-bricks (xiàn [綫], [fanqie:] si + jian; the character yán [綖] is incorrect. Zhuān [塼] has the fanqie zhi + yuan. This refers to curtain-weaving households: they cut numerous broken bricks into the shape of little drums and wind threads around them to serve as the warp for the curtains; depending on their number, while weaving the curtains, they hang in rows over the beams, dangling one after another like a backbone. This serves as an analogy for the Tathāgata's six years of asceticism, where his physical body was withered and emaciated, so that his vertebrae protruded in succession like layered thread-bricks. Chóng [重] is read in the falling tone).