一切經音義 26.618

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鶡鴨 (Note: Various sūtras all write this as 鶡鴨. The first character is pronounced with the fanqie 胡割 [hé]; the second is also written as 鵪, pronounced the same as 於甲 [yā]. The hé resembles a pheasant but is larger and dark blue-green, with tufts of feathers like horns; when it fights, it stops only at death, which is why military officers wore 'pheasant-tail caps' (héguān) to emulate it. Thus in the sūtra text it is written as 羯, pronounced with the fanqie 居謁 [jié], which means a wether (castrated ram); this is contrary to the meaning of the sūtra. According to the catalogue, following this there should have been sūtras such as the Four Boys, the Great Compassion, and the Great Ornament; these have been moved to before the sounds and meanings of the Nirvāṇa[-sūtra] and appended at the end of Fascicle 24. Let those who inspect the characters be aware of this).