一切經音義 65.206

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蚺虵（而塩反字林大虵也可食大二圍長二丈餘異物志云蚺虵食灰吞鹿出鹿與巴虵同也）。

蚺虵 [ránshé, python] (fanqie: 而 [ér] / 塩 [yán]. The Zilin says: 'A large snake, edible, two spans in girth and over twenty feet long.' The Yiwu zhi says: 'The python eats ashes and swallows deer, then expels the deer; it is the same as the Ba snake').