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सिंहलता (siMhalatA)

 
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
siṃha-latā, some kind of ornament, placed on trees and stūpas, and in groves (on their trees?)
precise mg. can only be guessed (Müller on Sukh ‘lion twists’
Senart, Mv 〔ii note 553〕, ‘peut-étre des enroulements combinés de feuillage et de lions’): Sukh 〔54.11〕 (among ornaments of Amitāyusʼs bodhi-tree)
°tāhi samalaṃkṛtaṃ bodhivṛkṣaṃ saṃjānetsuḥ Mv 〔ii.311.13〕
siṃhalatāhi (or siṃho-, mss.
Senart em. siṃhī°, m.c.
better siṃhā° = siṃha°) sphuṭā bodhivṛkṣe (em., mss. sphuṭe °kṣo) Mv 〔ii.317.8〕 (vs)
(udyānaṃ saṃchannaṃ …) °latā-jālaiḥ Gv 〔101.24〕
°latāḥ suruciravarṇasūtrā(ḥ) Śikṣ 〔302.2〕 (vs), in passage vaguely parallel to Mv 〔ii.317.8〕
suruci° may be a parallel and independent ornament, rather than an ep. of siṃhalatā
here decorations of a stūpa.