一切經音義 86.208

86.208

Holding a tablet (持笏; the second character is pronounced with the fanqie 昏沒. The Kaosheng says: "A 笏 is a tablet." The Liji says: "Whenever pointing or delineating before the ruler, one uses a tablet; when receiving orders before the ruler, one writes them on the tablet." The Gujin zhengzi gives it with the radical 竹 and 勿 as phonetic).