續一切經音義 4.111

4.111

蠃聲（上洛戈反切韻𧉻屬也爾雅曰蠃小者蜬郭璞注云大者如斗出日南漲海中可為酒杯說文從虫𣎆聲俗作螺或有作蠡二形並音禮鹿案蠃本古樂器名也吹以和樂故經中多云蠃聲或云法蠃用表法聲普聞含識）。

Sound of the conch (luosheng 蠃聲: the first character has the fanqie [reading] luo + ge [luo]. The Qieyun says: "A kind of shellfish." The Erya says: "The small conch is called han." Guo Pu's commentary says: "The large ones are as big as a bushel, produced in the Southern Sea; they can be made into wine cups." The Shuowen [jiezi] says it takes 'insect' [as semantic component] and luo as phonetic. Vulgar script writes 螺, or sometimes 蠡; both forms are pronounced li or lu. We note that luo was originally the name of an ancient musical instrument blown to harmonize music; therefore scriptures frequently speak of 'conch sound', or 'Dharma conch', to represent the Dharma's sound universally heard by sentient beings).