一切經音義 53.101

English (machine translation) 53.101

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53.101

Dismemberment by five-pronged forks (五叉磔: the first character is cè + jiā fanqie, an iron fork. The last character is cháo + gé fanqie. The Guangya says: "榤 means opened; stretched out." The Shuowen says: "Execution by tearing apart; it takes the radical 桀 and has 石 as phonetic." 桀 is pronounced jié. In the sūtra 'Five Forks' is the name of a hell; because these iron forks dismember the bodies of sinners, it is named the Five Forks Hell).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese