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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Musāgalva (मुसागल्व) or Musāra.—(often in Mahāvastu, nowhere else), musāragalva (the regular [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] form), musāragalvārka, musālagalva (?), sometimes miswritten susāra(galva, °galvārka) in mss. and even in edd. (Divyāvadāna 67.18, (Ārya-)Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa 120.22), m. (rarely nt.), a kind of precious stone. Recorded once in Sanskrit, musāragalva, said to mean a kind of coral ([Boehtlingk]); otherwise forms with mu- only noted in [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit]; but compare Sanskrit masāra and masāragalvarka (rarely written °vārka), said to mean sapphire or emerald; Pali masāra- galla, usually said to mean cat's eye, but Burnouf found a Pali Lex. source identifying it with pavāla, coral (Lotus 319 f.) and hence adopted this meaning for [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit], followed by Senart Mahāvastu i.415, and doubtfully by Kern [Sacred Books of the East] 21.147 n. 2; AMg. masāra and °ra-galla, said to mean sapphire; in recent years most interpreters of [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] have left the exact meaning undetermined; it usually occurs in rigmarole lists of various gems (once, at least, pravāla, coral, occurs earlier in the same list, Mahāvastu ii.472.1—2); Tibetan on Mahāvyutpatti 5956 spug, a gem which Jäschke (Tibetan-English Dictionary) leaves unidentified, while [Tibetan-English Dictionary] gives as Sanskrit equivalent (kakkatana and) karketana, said to mean cat's-eye (compare Pali above); clearly masc. gender when unambiguous, as a rule, e.g. Mahāvyutpatti 5956; Divyāvadāna 51.25, etc., but musāraṃ, n. sg., (Ārya-)Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa 120.22; besides this last, stem musāra Mahāvastu iii.323.13 in one ms. (v.l. musāgalva; Senart musāragalva); vaiḍūrya-musāra-pratyuptāṃ Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra 3.5; musālagalva (rare) Mahāvyutpatti 5956 (but Mironov musāra°, no v.l.); Mahāvastu iii.304.12 (so, or musā-g°, mss., Senart em. musāra°); musāgalva in text, no v.l., Mahāvastu i.194.9, 10; 196.17; 249.6; iii.227.7; 228.2, 14; 229.13; 323.16; 324.6; read musā-g°, with most mss. or requirements of meter, i.49.11; 63.2; ii.186.13; text musāra° but mss. divided evenly with v.l. musā°, i.49.14; ii.177.17; 180.14; 191.5; 310.8; 316.8; 472.2; iii.226.11; 232.10; musāragalvārka (compare Sanskrit above) Divyāvadāna 67.18 (ed. susā°); 138.3; the regular form in all texts is, however, musāragalva, Divyāvadāna 51.25; 115.3; 229.7; 297.25; 502.7; Avadāna-śataka i.205.3; Gaṇḍavyūha 52.15; 89.25; 148.13; Daśabhūmikasūtra 46.19; Bodhisattvabhūmi 5.10; 234.1; Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 151.2; 153.4; 239.7; 256.12; Lalitavistara 383.2, etc.

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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