一切經音義 45.52

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Sea tortoise (海𪓾: the lower character is wú + gāo [áo]; a giant sea turtle in the Eastern Sea. Its body is extraordinarily large, its back resembling a mountain range. Thus Zhuangzi's fable relates that a man of the Longbo Kingdom hooked a giant turtle, which is this creature. The sūtra uses it as a metaphor for the mind-king. Another book writes the character jī 激 with radical shuǐ 水, which is the name of a river and not the meaning of the sūtra; it should be written with radical mǐn 黽).