一切經音義 84.135

84.135

Behead and expose the head (梟斬, fanqie: 堅堯): Gu Yewang says, 'Suspending a severed head from a tree or atop a pole to display their crime.' The Shuowen jiezi says, 'An inverted head is an owl (梟)'; it is a pictographic character. The treatise text writes it with 鳥 as 梟, which is incorrect).