śalya (14875)

śalya
Entry 14875, Page 524, Col. 2

(Salya, Salya)
śalya¦ (m. or nt.; = Pali salla, see below), rope, as something that holds fast together; ship's cable, hawser: kṣānti-soratya-(= sau°) -smṛti-śalya-baddhā(ḥ) KP 153.5, (the ‘ship of the Doctrine’, dharmanāvā, line 2) that is moored (made fast) by the ropes of kṣānti, sauratya and smṛti; so Tib., bzod pa daṅ des pa daṅ dran pa ḥi sbyor kas (sbyor, connection, joining, fastening; instr.) legs par sbyar ba. Pali salla in a similar sense should be recognized in Therīg. 347 kāmā…sallabandhanā, desires which bind with cables (the usual meaning of salla, tho adopted in PTSD and Mrs. Rhys Davids' transl., clearly makes no sense); comm. 242.7 rāgādīnaṃ sallānaṃ bandhanato sallabandhanā (tatp., not dvandva; and if rāgādi could be called arrows or spears, kṣānti etc. of KP could not!).