一切經音義 24.74

24.74

Bānbó 斒駁 (The first character is fanqie 八蠻 [bān]. The Kaosheng says: 'variegated patterns'. Zheng's commentary on the Liji says: 'mixed colors form bān 斒'. The Shuowen jiezi says: 'mottled patterns; with radical wén 文 and biān 扁 phonetic; the sūtra text has 斑'. For auspicious jade, bān is fanqie 平免 [biǎn]. The lower character is fanqie 邦邈 [bó]. The Hanshu says: 'A mixture of white and black is called bó 駁'. The Shuowen jiezi says: 'A horse whose color is not pure; with radical mǎ 馬 and yáo 爻 phonetic'. In the sūtra text, it is written with jiāo 交 as 駮, the name of a beast; it does not have this meaning, and the vulgar use is an error).