पश्चान्मुख (pazcAnmukha)
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Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
Englishpaścānmukha, adj. or subst., also °mukhīkṛta, adj. (Skt. id. in mg. turned back, so LV 〔319.19〕, or turned towards the west, so Sukh 〔62.7〕 °mukhībhūtvā), perh. fig. (made) inferior, surpassed outdone: bahava śatasahasra paścānmukhā bodhisattvā kṛtāḥ LV 〔421.22〕 (vs), sc. by Śākyamuniʼs ‘turning the wheel of the law’ (? or simply turned back, stopped, without attaining Buddhahood ? Foucaux, however, renders sont, ensuite, devenus muets, as if reading [Page338-b] paścān mukā = mūkā, m.c.
no such reading is recorded in Lefm., nor in Calc., which glosses parāṅmukhā ity arthaḥ
Tib. phyir ni bsñil ba, acc. to Jä. banished, exiled)
Maitreyo … ekena galaparityāgena paścānmukhīkṛtaḥ Divy 〔481.5〕, M. was outdistanced by a single sacrifice of his own throat (on the part of a previous incarnation of Śākyamuni). In Śikṣ 〔167.6〕 paścānmukho nivartya seems to mean turning backward (on the religious path), and 〔167.8〕 paścānmukham akārṣam, I made a retrograde movement (on the same).
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