一切經音義 57.43

57.43

几上 ('upon the stool/table'; pronounced with the fanqie 飢 + 履. The Kaosheng says: "It belongs to the category of small tables (几案). The Zhouli has five kinds of stools: jade, carved, vermilion, lacquered, and plain; the feudal lords all used them in audiences and sacrifices." The Shuowen says: "A 'ji' (几) is for leaning upon; it is a pictographic character." The sūtra text writes it with [the radical] 木 as 机, which is the name of a tree and not the intended meaning of the sūtra, but a phonetic borrowing).