一切經音義 77.7

77.7

摶食 [morsel food] (The first character has the fanqie 斷欒 [tuán]. When people first ate the savory crust of the earth, before there were spoons and chopsticks, they rolled it into balls and ate it, hence it was named 'morsel food' [kavaḍīkārāhāra]. Derived from 手 with 專 as phonetic. In the text, it is written as 揣, which is incorrect).