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一切經音義 45.52

一切經音義 45.52

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Classical Chinese

45.52

海𪓾(下吾高反東海中大鼈也其形甚大背如山嶽故莊生寓言云龍伯國人鉤鼇是也經喻心王又書激字從水水名也非經義合從黽也)。

Sea tortoise (海𪓾: the lower character is wú + gāo [áo]; a giant sea turtle in the Eastern Sea. Its body is extraordinarily large, its back resembling a mountain range. Thus Zhuangzi's fable relates that a man of the Longbo Kingdom hooked a giant turtle, which is this creature. The sūtra uses it as a metaphor for the mind-king. Another book writes the character jī 激 with radical shuǐ 水, which is the name of a river and not the meaning of the sūtra; it should be written with radical mǐn 黽).

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