一切經音義 23.25

23.25

"Beating with cudgels and butchering" (The character for cudgel [棒] should properly be written 棓, or also as 抙. In the present text of the sūtra, it is written as 棒, which is the bàng of the hazel tree [榛], not the character for a beating club. Later, some wrote it with the hand classifier beside 奉, which is the character for holding [捧], straying even further from the sūtra's meaning. The Guangya says: "棓 means to strike." There are also forms with the wood classifier beside 咅, which is the exact character for a cudgel or staff).