續一切經音義 3.128

3.128

金屑（上金字說文曰五色金也黃為長久薶不生百鍊不輕從革不違西方之行生於土從土今左右注像金在土中形今聲下先結反切韻盡也清也不安皃按經意合作糏粖之糏）。

Gold shavings (金屑: for the first character, jin (金), the Shuowen jiezi says: "The metals of the five colours. Yellow is everlasting; buried without rotting, refined a hundred times without losing weight, adaptable without opposing; the phase of the west. It is born of the earth, hence takes earth [土] with strokes on the left and right depicting gold within the earth, and 今 as phonetic." The second character has the fanqie 先 + 結. The Qieyun says: "Exhausted; pure; the appearance of unease." According to the sūtra's meaning, it should properly be written with the xie (糏) of pulverized powder [糏粖]").