續一切經音義 4.75

4.75

Sand and saline marshes (shalu 沙滷: the first character has the fanqie [reading] suo + jia [sha]. The Erya says: "Turbid sand emerges." Guo [Pu's] commentary says: "East of the [Yangtze] River, sandbanks in the water are called shan; in the west there is Shazhou, which is the Mingsha Mountain." The second character has the fanqie [reading] lang + gu [lu]. The Erya says: "Saline is bitter." Guo's commentary says: "This refers to bitter soil." We note that it refers to desert and saline-bitter land. Both characters should properly take 'water' [as semantic component]. In the text of the scripture it is written 砂, which is granulated stone; when written 鹵, it is lubu, the name of court processional music that leads the Emperor's imperial carriage. Neither represents the characters for sand and saline marshes).