一切經音義 86.120

86.120

Fragrant basil and foul herb 薰蕕 (the first character is pronounced with the fanqie 詶 + 雲; the Yupian says: "Xun is a fragrant plant." The second character is pronounced 猶; both are standard forms. Du [Yu's] commentary on the Zuo Tradition says: "You is a foul-smelling herb; it is a slender plant growing by the water." The Zuo Tradition says: "One fragrant herb and one foul herb: after ten years the stink still remains." The Shuowen jiezi states that both characters xun and you take the grass radical 艸, with 熏 and 猶 respectively serving as phonetics. In the Treatise it is written as 熏, which is incorrect).