muṣṭi (12162)

muṣṭi
Entry 12162, Page 435, Col. 2

(muzwi, muzwi)
muṣṭi¦, f. (used in Skt. of the handle or grasping- point of a weapon), (1) = muṣṭi-bandha, q.v., grip, a manner of grasping (the bow): (bhagavatā, or maye, mayā, spoken by the Buddha) cirapraṇaṣṭā Śāk(i)ya- muṣṭi jñātā Mv ii.77.2, 3; 82.2, the long-lost (bow-)grip of the Śākyas was known; referring to the young Bodhi- sattva's exploit of wielding the bow of his grandfather Siṃhahanu, which no one else could wield; (2) see s.v. ācārya-muṣṭi; (3) since rikta-muṣṭi, q.v., is used in lists of things empty and delusive, the word muṣṭi alone is, acc. to text Śikṣ 261.8, used in the same sense: evaṃ cakṣuś cendriyaṃ ca rikte (app. dual) muṣṭisadṛśam (but read rikta-muṣṭi-sadṛśam?) alīkam asadbhūtaṃ etc.; note that after rikte the epithets are (at least mostly; but see moṣadharma) singular, which makes the dual rikte suspicious, depite the double subject; and the standard use of riktamuṣṭi, occurring actually in the preceding line of Śikṣ, makes the em. seem called for.