一切經音義 41.89

41.89

Murky darkness (暗冥: the upper character has the fanqie ē + gàn [àn]; Shuowen jiezi states: 'The sun without light'; it is also written as 闇. The lower character has the fanqie mò + píng [míng]; Kong's commentary on the Shangshu states: 'Míng means night'; Kaosheng says: 'Murky and dark'; Shuowen jiezi says: 'Obscure; derived from the moon's six days; on the sixteenth day the moon begins to wane and becomes obscure and dark; derived from 昗 with 冖 phonetic'; 冖 is pronounced mì; in the sūtra text it is written with 具 as 冥, which is incorrect).