bhuja (11272)

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bhuja
Entry 11272, Page 410, Col. 1
(Buja, Buja)
bhuja¦ (normally arm; said to mean also hand, pāṇi, kara, Skt. Gr. and Lex., see BR; once, at least, inter- preted thus in an old Pali text, see PTSD), hand: keśān addaśi lūna dakṣiṇi bhuje LV 194.12 (vs), she saw her hair cut off in her right hand. Tib. is strangely different: lag pa gyon pas skra yaṅ rab tu ḥbal…mthoṅ, she saw her hair dishevelled by her left (so!) hand.