一切經音義 80.200

80.200

蟒頭（上忙牓反爾雅蟒王虵也郭注云蟒虵之最大者故曰王虵古今正字蟒大虵也從虫莽聲蟒即宮亭胡神身也莽音上同）。

Python's head (蟒頭: the first character has the fanqie 忙牓 [mǎng]; the Erya says: 'Mǎng is the king snake.' Guo Pu's commentary says: 'The mǎng is the largest among snakes, hence called the king snake.' The Gujin zhengzi says: 'The mǎng is a large snake.' It takes 'insect' [虫] as radical and has mǎng [莽] as phonetic; the mǎng was precisely the bodily form of the deity of Lake Gongting; mǎng has the same sound as above).