mrakṣa (12353)

mrakṣa
Entry 12353, Page 441, Col. 2

(mrakza, mrakza)
mrakṣa¦, m. (= Pali makkha, which never means hypocrisy, as usually rendered; CPD under (a-)makkha more correctly disparaging, sc. good qualities of others; = paraguṇa-makkhana-lakkhaṇo, tesaṃ vināsana-raso, tadavacchādanapaccupaṭṭhāno (see pratyupasthāna) MN comm. i.106.26 f., on MN i.15.35; similarly tho less fully comm. on Dhp. 150 and 407; AN comm. ii.162.28, on AN i.95.15; in Pugg. 18.25, 22.29 f. read niṭṭhuriya for niddhunīya; AN and MN comms. l.c. define the associated paḷāsa, our pradāsa, q.v., by yugaggāha, grasping after preëminence for oneself over others), despite usual rendering hypocrisy or the like, never has that mg.; primarily, concealment of the good qualities of others, jealous disparagement, nasty disposition, ill-will, finally (like mrakṣya, q.v.) virtually = krodha, anger: this last development seems clearly complete in Karmav 37.19 text krodhaḥ, upanāhaḥ, mrakṣaḥ, pradāśaḥ, but for the last read with ms. paridāghaḥ, cf. Śikṣ 198.8 below; yet Mvy 1963 and Dharmas 69 mrakṣaḥ after krodha, upanāha, and before pradāsa (°śa); prob. same mg. in LV 262.17 (vs) krodha-mrakṣau; usually in rather misc. lists of vices; between māna and mada (after which comes krodha) LV 52.13; 411.16; after māna and mada Mv ii.229.20; between mātsarya and māna SP 481.4; after māna and mada, (before paridāha) Śikṣ 198.8, (before krodha) KP 7.3; after māna Mv i.166.20; Ud xvi.23 (= Pali Dhp. 150 māno makkho); after śāṭhya, vakratā, kauṭilya, māna SP 107.1; krodherṣyā-śāṭhya-mrakṣādayaś Bbh 20.15; krodha upanāhaḥ śāṭhyam īrṣyā pradāso (ed. °dāno) mrakṣo mātsaryaṃ…Dharmas 30. Tib., in all passages known to me (Mvy, LV, KP), renders ḥchab pa, conceal- ment, which is somewhat etymological (mrakṣ, smear, anoint), but not erroneous, only incomplete; it means primarily concealment of the good qualities of others, not (as nearly all have assumed) of one's own faults.