續一切經音義 3.132

3.132

Narrow and inferior (陿劣: the first character has the fanqie 咸 + 甲. Gu Yewang says: "Xia means cramped and narrow; the opposite of vast and great." The Shuowen jiezi says: "From the hill radical [阝] and 匚, with 夾 as phonetic." The sūtra text writes it with the dog radical as 狹, which means training dogs and horses, not the sūtra's intended meaning. The second character has the fanqie 戀 + 惙. The Kaosheng says: "Weak; lacking strength." An associative compound. The ancient script writes it as 乎. The radical 阝 is pronounced fu [𨸏]; 匚 is pronounced fang [方]; 夾 is pronounced tian [田]).