續一切經音義 3.128

3.128

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]").