一切經音義 51.17

English (machine translation) 51.17

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51.17

"River of pus" (Fanqie: 奴 + 冬 [nóng]. The Shuowen jiezi says: '膿 means broken blood from ulcers and sores.' It derives from the flesh (月) radical with 農 as phonetic. The 'river of pus' means that hungry ghosts, through their own karmic power, see water as a river of pus).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese