mukha (12110)

mukha
Entry 12110, Page 433, Col. 2

(muKa, muKa)
(mukha¦, nt., seems to me to show no uses essentially different from Skt.; a few which have caused or might cause questions to arise are here listed: (1) ifc., (in a given) direction, cf. BR s.v. 3: bāhyamukhaṃ kṣiptāni Mv ii.458.1, thrown outside; bāhyato-mukhaṃ kṣipati iii.13.4; see also paścānmukha; sthānāsanaṃ śayanacaṅkrama- ṇaṃ na kariṣya (mss. °ṣye, unmetr.) 'haṃ kapilavastu- mukhaṃ LV 223.5 (vs), in (lit. in the direction of) K.: (2) entrance, ingress (BR s.v. 5 and 8) = introduction, in dharmamukha, dharmālokamukha, qq.v.; also samādhi-mukha SP 312.2, where Kern suggests em. °sukha, but Tib. sgo, entrance; in Laṅk samādhi-mukha 12.1 and 13.13 is, to be sure, said to be rendered by Tib. bde ba, happiness, i.e. sukha, and this cpd. is found in the text 222.2--3, while in 72.19 Tib. and Chin. are stated to omit mukha after samādhi; in LV 181.20 trimokṣa- sukha- is app. a misprint for °mukha (so Foucaux; no v.l. cited in Lefm. but Calc. mukha); in LV 352.16 (vs) Lefm. dhyānā-mukhaṃ, but v.l. with Calc. °sukhaṃ, so Foucaux (the construction is obscure; no verb in text; perh. the word is governed by the foll. abhimukhaṃ, in the direction of…); upadeśa-mukhaṃ Mv i.193.8, introduction to (religious) instruction (said of the long section on the 10 bhūmi which follows); prajñāpāramitā- mukha Gv 125.1; 149.3 ff., here a long list of such °mukhāni, all named, beginning śāntigarbhaṃ nāma °khaṃ; another list of such names 448.23 ff., forty-two items, as stated 450.19, which adds that they are however innumerable.)