一切經音義 6.107

6.107

Fragrant and sweet-smelling (芬馥: the first is pronounced with the fanqie 芳文 [fēn]. The Kaosheng says: "Fenfen describes a fragrant aroma." The Shuowen says: "The fragrance diffusing when earth and grasses first sprout; originally deriving from 屮 [pronounced with the fanqie 丑列, chè]; nowadays it is also written with 'grass' [艸] with 分 as phonetic." In the sūtra text some write it with vapor [气] as 氛, pronounced fén, meaning auspicious vapor, which is not the sūtra's meaning; some write it with 'fragrance' [香] as 馚, which is an invalid character and incorrect. The second is pronounced with the fanqie 馮福 [fù]. The Han Commentary on the Classic of Poetry says: "Fenfu describes a fragrant aroma; deriving from 'fragrance' [香] with 复 as phonetic").