一切經音義 18.64

18.64

Calamities and misfortunes (the upper character is [pronounced with the fanqie] 宰 + 來. The Zuo zhuan says: 'When Heaven acts contrary to the seasons, it is a zai (disaster).' The Baihu tong says: 'Zai speaks of injury.' The Shuowen writes it as 𡿧: '𡿧 means harm; it takes the one radical blocking the river radical (chuan).' Alternatively, it takes the fire radical as 災. In the sūtra it is written as 灾, a vulgar graph).