續一切經音義 4.114

4.114

Vines and creepers (tengluo 藤蘿: the first character has the fanqie [reading] tu + deng [teng]. The dictionary says: "藤 resembles kudzu and grows climbing." The Yupian says: "A creeping vine (lei)," pronounced lei. The second character has the fanqie [reading] luo + he [luo]. The Erya says: "Tangmeng is nuluo; nuluo is dodder." The Yunying says: "蘿 means vines." The first character teng is written 蕂 in the scripture text, pronounced shi + zheng [fan] [sheng], which is the character for jusheng, another name for sesame; it does not bear the meaning of vines. 苣 is pronounced ju).