uṣṇīṣa, (1) (3953)

uṣṇīṣa, (1)
Entry 3953, Page 149, Col. 2

(uzRIza, uzRIza)
uṣṇīṣa, (1)¦ nt. (in Skt. also m.; = Pali uṇhīsa), in Skt. only turban; in cpd. uṣṇīṣa-śīrṣa(n) or -śiras(ka), 32d of the 32 lakṣaṇa, q.v. (Pali uṇhīsa-sīsa), acc. to Pali DN comm. ii.452.1 ff. having a head the size and shape of which makes it seem turbanned. But in BHS (and Pali) interpreted as having a head surmounted by an excrescence, whether a top-knot of hair, or a growth in the skull. So Tib. regularly (uṣṇīṣa = gtsug tor), e.g. on Mvy 236 uṣṇīṣa-śiraska-tā. Confirmed by Gv 401.26 ff. mūrdhni cāsyoṣṇīṣam abhinirvṛttam abhūt, sujātaṃ samanta- parimaṇḍalaṃ madhyābhinyastakeśālaṃkāraṃ koṭīśatasa- hasrapattraratnapadmasaṃdarśitaṃ samantāt samabhā- gapratiṣṭhitam aparimitamahārghyatāpradhānamadhyam. Cf. also uṣṇi, apparently = uṣṇīṣa in this sense, and uṣṇiṣa. In comp. as one of the lakṣaṇa, LV 105.11; 432.13; Dharmas 83; Mv i.227.3; ii.30.6; 307.4; Bbh 376.7; (2) m., one of ten Krodha: Dharmas 11; (3) in Mmk 41.7 aṣṭau uṣṇīṣarājānaḥ are mentioned as to be depicted in a rite; their names, given 41.10--11, are Cakra- vartin, Uṣṇīṣa, Abhyudgatoṣṇīṣa, Sitātapatra, Jayoṣṇīṣa, Kamaloṣṇīṣa, Tejorāśi, Unnatoṣṇīṣa. They seem not to be related to the Krodha of Dharmas 11, tho the first two names also occur in that list. Nothing significant is said of them.

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