續一切經音義 3.51

3.51

Amputating the kneecap (臏割: the first character has the fanqie 蒲忍 [pu + ren / bìn]. The Da Dai Liji says: "Human beings develop their kneecaps in late infancy and only then can walk." The Shuowen says: "The kneecap bone." The Shangshu zhuan says: "Those who breach passes and bridges, scale city walls, or pillage and rob, their punishment is kneecap amputation." Gu Yewang says: "The punishment of severing the feet; that is, the category of foot-amputation in the Marquis of Lü's penal code." It is also written with the radical 骨 [bone] as 𩪯. The second character has the fanqie 古達 [gu + da / gē]. The Erya says: "'割' means to sever." The Qieyun says: "To peel and cut off; formed from 刀 [knife] with 害 as the phonetic component.")