一切經音義 72.21

72.21

Camel and cat (駞猫; the first character is pronounced with the fanqie 馱羅 [tuó]. The Shanhaijing states: 'Mount Hao has many pack-camels (橐駞).' Guo Pu's Commentary on the Erya states: 'Mule-camels are pack-camels. They have flesh saddles on their backs, can bear a thousand catties, and know where water springs are located.' The Gujin zhengzi states that it takes 'horse' [馬] as radical and 它 as phonetic, pronounced tuó. The second character is pronounced with the fanqie 夘包 [māo]. The Book of Rites states: 'Welcoming the cat (猫) is because it eats field mice.' Gu Yewang states: 'The cat resembles a tiger but is smaller; people raise it as a domestic animal to catch mice.' The Gujin zhengzi states that it takes 豸 as radical and 苗 as phonetic. In the treatise text, writing it with the "dog" radical [犬] as 貓 is a common vulgar form. 豸 is pronounced 雉 [zhì]).