maRqalaka
maṇḍalaka , ( 1 ) m. ( adj. ?), a kind of disease which destroys a family : °ko rogajāto yahiṃ kule nipatati, na kiṃci śeṣeti, sarvaṃ harati Mv i.253.4 (see adhivāsa, ārddha ); ( 2 ) nt. , acc. to Chin. a standard (either connected or not connected with that which stands on it), base for something: trapu-°kam Mvy 8954 (both Tib. and Chin. render trapu as lead ); Tib. zha ñeḥi dbyar ( prob. read sbyar ), with or without ḥdab (= ḥdabs , surface ), which could mean (surface) attachment of lead (?); follows cakoraka , q.v. ; the Tib. (contrary to Chin. ) could apparently mean a cover , just as well as a base , and our word seems likely to mean that in MSV ii.24.12 maṇḍalakaṃ kṛtvā, putting a cover on (a box containing an infant); ( 3 ) = maṇḍala (1) m. ( nt. ?), a ‘circle’ (but in Kv actually square in shape, hence rather), piece of ground specially prepared in honor of a Buddha or saint (for him to sit on), or for the performance of a sacred rite: Bhagavato maṇḍalakam āmārjaya Divy 333.18 ; tayor dve te āsanaprajñaptī kṛtau(!) dvau maṇḍalakāv āmārjitau 345.22 ; (ye) 'valokiteśvarasya purataś caturasraṃ maṇḍalakaṃ kurvanti, te rājāno bhavanti Kv 49.2 ; agrato °kaṃ puṣpābhikīrṇaṃ kṛtvā praṇamya bodhicittam utpādya … Sādh 1.12 , and so often in Sādh , as a place for a rite; in this sense AbhidhK. LaV-P. iv.94, 102 , and (tri-)maṇḍala Bhīk 9a.4 ; ( 4 ) (= maṇḍala 2), one of the parts of the body which touch the ground in a reverential prostration : pañcamaṇḍalakena vandanaṃ kṛtvā Mvy 9278 = Tib. yan lag lṅas … , with five limbs ( Jä. arms, legs , and head ; or more precisely knees, hands, and forehead? ). [ BR ʼs maṇḍalaka-rājan, cited from Mvy , is replaced in both modern edd. by māṇḍalika-, which is Skt. ; see s.v. maṇḍalin .]