續一切經音義 10.39

10.39

Plain ablaze (原燎: the first character is [pronounced with the fanqie] niu + yuan; the Erya says: "A wide and level expanse is called a plain [原]"; the second character is [pronounced with the fanqie] li + zhao; the Shangshu says: "Like a fire blazing across the plain"; the Shuowen says it means "to set fire to," formed from fire [火] with liao as phonetic).