續一切經音義 5.142

5.142

Sword hilt [劒把] (The first character has the fanqie phonetic spelling 居 + 欠; the Shiming says: "A sword (jian) is examination (jian); it is that by which abnormal events are checked and guarded against"; the Guangya says: "Longquan, Tai'e, Ganjian, Moye, Duanshe, Yuchang, and more than ten other names are all variant names for swords." The second character has the fanqie phonetic spelling 必 + 駕; the Qieyun says the handle of a knife or sword; the sūtra text writes 靶, which the Shuowen identifies as bridle ornamentation, not what is intended here; some texts write 釰 with the metal classifier, which is completely mistaken).