一切經音義 20.35

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20.35

瀑雨 ("torrential rain"; [the former] fanqie: 蒲 + 冒. The Mao Commentary to the Shijing says: "There is constant wind and sudden rain (瀑)." The Shuowen says: "It means swift rain; it takes 水 as semantic and 暴 as phonetic." In the sūtra text it is written as 暴, which is the character for sun-drying).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese