一切經音義 72.253

72.253

蚖蛇（古文作螈字林五官反虵醫也崔豹古今注蠑螈一名蛇醫大者長三尺其色玄紳善魅人一名玄螈漢書云玄蚖韋昭曰玄黑蚖蜥蜴也經中黑蚖疑此物也而不言毒害人未詳的是諸經亦作虺吁鬼反毒蟲也一身兩口頭尾相似）。

"Venomous snake (蚖蛇)" (in ancient script written as 螈; the Zilin gives wu and guan in fanqie [yuán]: a skink/lizard. Cui Bao's Gujin zhu states: "The newt [rongyuan], another name for which is 'snake-healer' [sheyi], when large is three feet long; its color is deep dark, and it is adept at bewitching people; another name is xuanyuan." The Hanshu mentions xuanyuan; Wei Zhao says: "Xuan means black; yuan is a lizard." In the sūtras, the 'black yuan' is suspected to be this creature, but it is not stated to be poisonous and harmful to people, so it is not yet certain. In various sūtras it is also written as 虺 [huǐ], xu and gui in fanqie: a poisonous reptile with one body and two mouths, whose head and tail resemble one another).