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Pañcaśikha , ( 1 ) m. (= Pali °sikha), n. of a celebrated gandharva: Mv iii.197.15 ff. ; 215.5 ff. ; Av i.95.8—9 ff. ; 113.5 ; Samādh 19.11 ff., 37 ; king of gandharvas, Mmk 46.1 ; as in Pali ( DPPN ) sometimes regarded (like Śakra) as an office rather than an individual, so that a person may be reborn as the gandharva P. , Mv ii.49.3 ; ( 2 ) f. , or adj. , °khā mahāmudrā ( q.v. ), a mudrā belonging to Mañjuśrī ( cf. Lalou ʼs theory cited s.v. Pañcacīra ), Mmk 26.15 ; [Page315-b] printed °kha-mahāmudrā Mmk 37.8 , but in 37.26—27 and 58.24 mahāmudrā(ṃ) pañcaśikhāṃ baddhvā, and so regularly ( fem. ).