eqamUka
eḍamūka , adj. ( cf. eḍaka-mūka ; = Pali eḷamūga), stupid ( lit. dumb ) as a sheep (this, not deaf and dumb , seems to be the regular mg. in Pali and BHS , see CPD s.v. an-elamūga, an-eḷa°, and e.g. Miln. 251.1—2 duppaññā jaḷā eḷamūgā mūḷhā dandhagatikā janā): Mvy 7684 = Tib. lug ltar ( sheep-like ) lkug pa ( dumb , also stupid ); Chin. also dumb, dumb like sheep , but Jap. deaf and dumb ; it must be admitted the Jap. editorʼs view gets some support from the next word in Mvy , hastasaṃvācakaḥ (see saṃvācaka ); AsP 113.2 eḍamūkajātīyā(ḥ) prajñāparihīṇās; °ka-saṃgha MSV iii.116.18, 21 ; Śikṣ 51.6 dhanva-(= dhandha- , q.v. )-gatiṃ jaḍaiḍamūka-gatiṃ; 284.1 dha- (erasure, read nva for ndha)-jaḍa-eḍamūka-jātīyāḥ. Skt. lexicons seem to have abstracted from this cpd. an adj. eḍa, deaf , assuming that the cpd. means deaf and dumb ; and in some late texts (see Schmidt, Nachtr. ), perhaps by direct borrowing from lexx. , this usage is actually found in literature. Did Mvy also know this interpretation? Sheep are proverbially stupid in other countries than India.