續一切經音義 1.8

1.8

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.).