一切經音義 35.194

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𧶻莽娑（上莫候反。爾雅云𧶻市也。韻英云𧶻賣也。說文易財也。從貝戼聲戼音古文酉字也。經從夘作𧵍非也。言𧶻莽娑者賣死人肉也。駈伇鬼神法中事也。取新死人肉未壞者如庖厨法雜以薑椒五味調適炙㷅令香美用祭饗屍陁林中大力鬼神。既饗祭已。便以佛頂真言威力駈逼伇使令遣為國除惌害。以此食易彼力故言𧵍莽娑。炙音之亦反從肉㷅音初絞反。俗作炒）。

Selling flesh (𧶻莽娑) (the first character is *mo-hou* fan; Erya says: "𧶻 means market"; Yunying says: "𧶻 means to sell"; Shuowen jiezi says: "To exchange wealth"; it takes the cowrie radical and the 戼 sound; 戼 is the ancient character for 酉; the sūtra text takes 夘 to write 𧵍, which is incorrect; 'selling *māṃsa*' refers to selling the flesh of a corpse; this is a matter within the ritual procedures for driving and commanding spirits; one takes the undecayed flesh of a recently deceased person, prepares it like in kitchen culinary art, mixes it with ginger, pepper, and the five flavours, dresses and roasts or fries it to make it fragrant and delicious, and uses it to make offerings to the mighty spirits and ghosts in the śmaśāna charnel grounds; once the offering is made, through the mighty prestige of the Uṣṇīṣa Mantra, one immediately coerces and commands them, sending them to eliminate enemies and harms for the state; because this food is used to barter for their strength, it is called 'selling *māṃsa*'; the character 炙 is *zhi-yi* fan, taking the flesh radical; the character 㷅 is *chu-jiao* fan, colloquially written as 炒).