一切經音義 27.76

27.76

Crossed legs [加趺]: ([The fanqie for 加 is] gu + xia. The Erya says: 'jia [加] means doubled' [重]. Thus sitting cross-legged. The Chu zaiheng jing and other sūtras say 'sitting with crossed legs' [結交趺坐]. The character 趺 has an unknown derivation and is a vulgar graph. South of the Yangtze, sitting with knees opened wide is called 'straddle-sitting' [跘跨坐]; east of the mountains it is called 'interlocking-foot sitting' [甲趺坐]. The fanqie for 跘 is ba + huan; the fanqie for 跨 is kou + hua).