一切經音義 6.42

6.42

殉命 ("sacrificing one's life": [fanqie] 巡俊 [xùn]. Zuozhuan says: "Duke Wen of Jin died, and lavish burial began to employ human sacrifice." Du Yu says: "Escorting the dead with living humans and burying them alive is called xùn." Gujin zhengzi says: "Losing one's person to follow external things is called xùn." Shuowen says: "Composed of 歹 with 旬 as the phonetic; 歹 has the fanqie 五割 [è]." The lower character has the fanqie 明柄 [mìng]. Kaosheng says: "Altogether it has nine glosses: that endowed at birth; to command; Shuowen says: to send, to speak, to see, to trust, to avoid, to inform; Shuowen says: to dispatch; composed of 口 with 令 as the phonetic.")