續一切經音義 1.8

1.8

紛綸（上芳文反廣雅云紛眾多貌也考聲亂也下律迍反易曰綸經理也注太玄經云綸絡也今桉紛綸即雜遝交絡盛貌也說文二字並從糸分侖聲也糸音覓也）。

Fen lun 紛綸 (The upper character is the fanqie fang + wen; the Guangya states: 'Fen indicates the appearance of multiplicity.' The Kaosheng states: 'Disordered.' The lower character is the fanqie lü + zhun; the Book of Changes states: 'Lun means to regulate.' The commentary on the Taixuan jing states: 'Lun means to entwine.' We now examine that fenlun describes the flourishing appearance of an intricate and entwined confluence. In the Shuowen, both characters take the silk radical with the phonetics fen and lun. The silk radical 糸 is pronounced mi.).