一切經音義 94.129

94.129

Spear and shield (矛盾: the first character has the sound móu. It has already been explained above. The transmission's text writes it as 牟. Character dictionaries write it with 口 as 𰠧, which is the bellowing sound of cattle, not the original meaning, so it is not adopted here. The矛 (spear) belongs to the halberd class and is twelve feet long; ancient script also writes it with 戈 as 矛, with the same pronunciation. The second character is fanqie chun + zhun [dùn]; dùn is a shield. Both characters have already been fully explained above in Fascicle 1 of the Biographies of Eminent Monks; the character fá (瞂) has the sound fá).