一切經音義 88.293

88.293

膜拜（莫音郭注穆天子傳膜胡跪禮佛稱南膜也說文從肉莫聲）。

Prostrating in obeisance (膜拜): [The first character is] pronounced like *mo*. Guo [Pu's] commentary on the Biography of King Mu says: 'To prostrate (膜) is the Hu-style kneeling ritual of paying homage to the Buddha, called *namo*.' The Shuowen jiezi says: 'It is formed with [the semantic classifier] flesh (肉) and the phonetic component *mo* (莫).'