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一切經音義 95.67

English (machine translation) 95.67

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95.67

Covetous and greedy (婪: fanqie 臘耽 [lán]. The Kaosheng states: "Greedy and rapacious; not scrupulous or pure." The Shuowen jiezi records Du Lin saying: "The diviners' conspirators colluding to fabricate fraudulent tokens is called lán; composed of 女 ('woman') with 林 phonetic." Also written as 惏 and 𢛓).

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