一切經音義 27.268

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蚖（字林五官反切韻亦愚袁反古文作螈。玉篇蛇醫也蠑蚖蜥蜴蝘蜓守宮以別四名崔豹古今注蠑螈一曰蛇醫大者長三尺。其色玄紺善魅人一名玄螈。漢書云螈。韋昭云黑螈蜥蜴也。在舍名守宮以血塗女人臂女有過者洗之不落因名守宮。在草石中名蜴蜥。在澤名蝘蜓。通名蠑螈。準此遺教有錯寫云譬如黑蚖在汝室睡應言黑螈正應為元但以蚖𧈭相類遂錯寫焉。或云蚖有二類一即守宮二黑短蛇遺教不錯故彼又云。睡蛇既出乃可安眠。𧈭者黑短蛇與餘蛇別非守宮也不尒此經下別守宮上復說蚖一何重踏故俗書解與經義別。曾見南僧說蚖咬人唯遺藥王草能療之必若無即死）。

蚖 (*yuan* [viper/salamander]: *Zilin* [gives the fanqie] *wu* + *guan*; *Qieyun* also has *yu* + *yuan* fanqie; in ancient script written as 螈; *Yupian*: "the *sheyi* [skink]"; the *rongyuan*, the *xiyi*, the *yanting*, and the *shougong* are four distinguished names; Cui Bao's *Gujin zhu* [states]: "The *rongyuan*, one name is *sheyi*, the large ones being three feet long; its color is dark navy-black, and it is skilled at bewitching people; another name is *xuanyuan*"; the *Hanshu* says 螈; Wei Zhao says: "The *heiyuan* is the lizard; when inside a house it is called *shougong* [house gecko]; its blood is smeared on a woman's arm, and if the woman commits a fault, it will not wash off, hence named *shougong* [palace-guard]; in grass and rocks it is named *yixi* [lizard]; in marshes it is named *yanting*; the general name is *rongyuan*"; according to this, the *Yijiao jing* was miscopied as: 'For example, like a black *yuan* sleeping in your chamber'; it should read 'black *yuan*' [螈], properly meaning *yuan* [salamander], but because 蚖 and 𧈭 are similar, it was erroneously copied thus; or someone says: 蚖 has two kinds: one is the *shougong*, the other is a short black snake; the *Yijiao jing* is not mistaken, hence it also says there: 'Only when the sleeping snake has gone out can one sleep peacefully'; the 𧈭 is a short black snake, distinct from other snakes and not a *shougong*; were it not so, then in this sūtra below, it distinguishes the *shougong*, so why would it repeat 蚖 above? How redundant that would be! Hence the secular texts' explanations differ from the meaning in the sūtra; I once saw a monk from the South say that when a 蚖 bites a person, only the 'Medicine King grass' left behind can treat it, and if one lacks it, the person will certainly die).