cIraka · cīraka 1 · cīraka 2
strip
Cīraka [cf. cīra] 1. bark (see compounds) 2. a strip, in suvaṇṇa° gold brocade (dress) Ja V 197. -vāsika (neuter) bark-dress (a punishment) M I 87 = A I 48 = Miln 197.
cīraka , m. or nt. (in mg. 1 = Pali id. , Skt. cīra), ( 1 ) strip , primarily of cloth, bark, or the like: °ka-vadhrāṇi, here of strips of flesh, Mv i.19.9 (prose); of either cloth or bark garments, i.19.11 (prose), see vārṣikā ; ( 2 ) in Mmk , lock or braid of hair , artificially arranged (compared to a strip ) = Tib. ( skra , hair ) zur phud ( hair-knot ), Lalou, Iconographie 66 f. (but I do not think, with Lalou , that this or any cpd. ever refers to a diadem ); Mañjuśrīʼs head is adorned with five such, but some passages suggest that in this he was like an ordinary youth in festive garb, sarvabālālaṃkārabhūṣitaḥ ( ed. °ta-)pañcacīrakopaśobhitaḥ Mmk 41.24 ; pañcacīrakopaśobbhita-(text °taṃ) [Page231-b] śiraṃ bāladārakālaṃkārālaṃkṛtaṃ 305.6 ; (kumārākāracihnitaḥ) pañcacīrakamūrdhāno 436.3 ; note especially pañcacīrakopaśobhitaṃ ekacīrakopaśobhitaṃ śikhopaśobhita-śiraskaṃ (so read for text °bhitaṃ aśiraskaṃ!) vā rājaputraṃ mūrdhābhiṣiktaṃ kṣatriyaputraṃ vā … 49.13 (the youth symbolizes Mañjuśrī, cf. 49.16 f. ); Mañjuśrī is pañcacīrakopaśobhitaḥ 41.24 ; with more specific reference to his head, pañcacīrakaśiraskaḥ 62.8 ; similarly 68.16 ; 75.14 ; ( 3 ) also in Mmk , cīraka-mudrā is a position of the two hands, interlocked, in which one index finger is made to project (muktvā) between the two thumbs, so that it resembles a hair-braid : (anyonyasaktāṅgulimuṣṭayoḥ pradeśinīṃ muktvā aṅguṣṭhayugalaṃ [ prob. read °la-]madhyataḥ, eṣā sā Mañjuśrīḥ) tvadīyā aparā cīraka-mudrā 382.(15—)17 ; prob. this is alluded to by ekacīrakam ( sc. mudram; see s.v. mudra ) 355.27 , also sacred to Mañjuśrī; its description in 382.15 ff. occurs in a list of mudrās the names of which refer (presumably because of their shape) to various parts of Mañjuśrīʼs body, e.g. tvadīyā vaktramudrā 382.11 , etc. (note esp. 383.1 ff. śravaṇo grīvā bhujau etc. , without specific descriptions).
(nt, nt, dimin of cīra) strip of rag strip Construction: cīra + ka
(nt, nt) fibre
(nt, nt) bark dress