一切經音義 64.194

64.194

腋已下 (The first character is pronounced like 亦 [yì]. Kaosheng: Below the shoulder. Picang says: It refers to the armpit; it is behind the elbow; 胳 [gē] is also the armpit. Gujin zhengzi agrees with Picang. Derived from 肉 [flesh] with 夜 as phonetic. In the scriptures it is written with 手 [hand] as 掖, which is the character for side palaces and not the meaning in the scripture. 胳 is pronounced like 各 [gè]).