一切經音義 97.48

97.48

蓍龜（始移反蒼頡篇蓍策也顧野王云策用以筮者四十九枚楪之為卦也周易云定天下之吉凶莫見乎蓍龜也白虎通曰蓍者信也說文蒿屬也生千歲三百莖也從艸耆聲揲音時設反揲猶數也說文閱待）。

Milfoil and tortoise shell (蓍龜: [the first character is pronounced] shi + yi fan; the Cangjie pian says that shi (蓍) refers to divination stalks; Gu Yewang says that the stalks used for divination are forty-nine in number, counted out to make hexagrams; the Zhouyi says, 'To determine the auspicious and inauspicious under Heaven, nothing is greater than the milfoil and tortoise'; the Baihu tong says that the milfoil represents trustworthiness; the Shuowen jiezi says it is a kind of mugwort, living for a thousand years and bearing three hundred stalks, composed of 'grass' [艸] with qi [耆] phonetic; 揲 is pronounced shi + she fan; she is like counting; the Shuowen jiezi says it means inspecting and sorting).