一切經音義 45.12

45.12

蹠踐 [Tread and trample] (the first character is pronounced with the fanqie zhī + shí [zhí]. The Huainanzi states: "Birds beat the empty air and fly, while beasts tread the solid ground and run." Xu Shuzhong's commentary states: "Zhí means to step on; to walk." The Shuowen states: "It takes 'zú' (足) as its semantic classifier and 'shù' (庶) as its phonetic component." The sūtra text writes it with 'lù' (鹿) as '蹗', which is an error).