hemajAla
hema-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).