हेमजाल (hemajAla)
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Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
Englishhema-jāla (not noted as cpd. in Skt.
Pali id., defined as covering for gift-elephants, gift-chariots, a heavenly mansion or vimāna and the body of a possessor of one
AMg. °jālaga, a kind of ornament, Ratnach.), lit. gold-net, but seems to have acquired a special mg., which is not clear: in Mv 〔i.171.8〕 (vs) one of the 60 qualities of a Buddhaʼs voice is that it is hemajāla-tulya-ravā, sounding like a …
in Mv 〔i.195.5〕 the railing-networks (vedikā-jāla, see vedikā) of Dīpavatī, and in 〔196.4〕 each of its city gates, are covered with two hemajāla, one of gold and the other of silver! (〔195.5〕) dvihi hemajālehi praticchannā abhūṣi suvarṇamayena ca °lena rūpyamayena ca
the next sentence, both times, says that the golden hemajāla had bells of silver, the silver one bells of gold
Senart supposes that hema- has come to mean precious substance in general, but I know of nothing else to support this
on the other hand, in Mv 〔ii.453.17〕 the lit. mg. may well apply, elephants being described as hemajāla-praticchanna (misprinted hemalāla° in text), as in Pali AN 〔iv.393.21〕 (°saṃchanna).
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