jihma , adj. (in these senses recorded nowhere else; Skt. , Pali jimha, and Pkt. jimha, jimma, regularly crooked or fig. dishonest ), ( 1 ) bereft of light, obscured, not shining, dull ; regularly said of entities regarded as brightly shining in themselves, but having their light eclipsed or obscured by a greater radiance, esp. that emitted or caused by the Buddha; so at the bodhi-tree Buddha causes a radiance which makes the divine abodes of the gods jihma Mv ii.316.18 or jihmavarṇa Mv ii.313.17 ; 316.16 and by Senart ʼs em. (for mss. jihmabala) 295.1 ; 296.9 ; 304.1 ; 308.16 (in all these jihma-bala might stand, of obscured, dulled power ); similarly, jihma vipaśyatha (so divide) divya ātmabhāvāṃ LV 49.12 ( vs ; Apsarases speak, looking at Māyāʼs superior beauty), see how (our) divine bodies are eclipsed (in splendor); jihma sarvatuṣitālayo bhuto ( m.c. for bhūto) 54.3 ( vs ), the whole abode of the Tuṣita became splendorless ; sarvāṇi mārabhavanāni karonti jihmā 296.16 ( vs ); jihma (so divide; acc. sg. ) kurvati jagat sadevakam RP 6.15 ( vs ); also fig. of the intelligence and senses; vijñāna, in Mv ii.355.14 ( vs ) ye gṛddhā lābhasatkāre jihma-vijñāna-( dull intelligence )-niśritā; and Karmav 31.12 (apāyeṣūpapanno) durgandho bhavati jihmendriyo bhavaty avyaktendriyaḥ, … of dull and obscure (see avyakta ) senses ; ( 2 ) ( cf. jihmīkṛtaḥ Mvy 5200 , below s.v. jihmīkaroti , with Tib. ) disappointed, depressed, saddened, despondent : in LV 193.19 ( vs ) read (with v.l. ) jihmā-jihma ( n. pl. , āmreḍita) sudurmanā, very depressed and downcast ; confirmed by Tib. dman zhiṅ dman ; prob. so, a-jihma in Sukh 25.16 (prose) aśaṅko 'jihmo, free from doubt and despondency (in a description of a Bodhisattva); to be sure the next words are 'śaṭho 'māyāvī, which suggest the Skt. meaning, not deceitful , but these lists of characteristics are apt to go in pairs, and aśaṅka suggests this BHS meaning of (a-)jihma, which is otherwise known [Page243-b] and easily develops from mg (1). See the following items, which support both mgs.
jihma a. [ jahAti saralamArgaM; hA-man sanvat AlopaSca Uṇ. 1. 138 ] 1 ( pb ) Sloping, athwart, oblique. 2 Crooked, awry, squint; Rs. 1. 12. 3 Tortuous, curved, going irregularly. 4 Curved, bent. 5 Morally crooked, deceitful, dishonest, wicked, unfair; DftahetirapyaDftajihmamatiH Ki. 6. 24 ; suhfdarTamIhitamajihmaDiyAM Śi. 9. 62. 6 Dim, dark, pale-coloured: viDisamayaniyogAddIptisaMhArajihmaM Ki. 1. 46. 7 Slow, lazy. — hmaM 1 Dishonesty, falsehood. 2 The Tagara tree. Comp. — akza a. crooked-eyed, squinting. — ga a. moving slowly. — (gaH) a snake. — gati a. meandering, going tortuously; Rs. 1. 13. — mehanaH a frog. — yoDin a. fighting unfairly. ( — m. ) an epithet of Bhīma. — SalyaH the Khadira tree.