mahAnagna
mahā-nagna , m. ( cpd. of mahā and nagna , q.v. ; seems to correspond to Pali mahānāga, DN i.51.10 °gā, n. pl. , in a list of kinds of fighting men which includes uggā rājaputtā … sūrā cammayodhino etc. ; comm. i.157.6 mahānāgā viya mahānāgā; hatthiādisu pi abhimukham āgacchantesu anivattitayodhānaṃ etaṃ adhivacanaṃ, all of which only proves that the comm. did not understand the term; it is omitted in PTSD , altho Childers properly refers to Burnouf, Lotus , 452, n. 4 , who in translating the Pali suggests equivalence to BHS mahānagna, which he takes to be the older form; Skt. nagna would give MIndic nagga, for which nāga might be substituted; Burnouf also compares the Skt. n. pr. Nagnajit, perh. conquering champions ; pw and Speyer, Av Index , render athlete , but this is only an attempt to explain the word etymologically; it is implausible in several passages, and opposed by Tib. ), great man, champion ( orig. in warfare); man of distinction, dignitary, grandee, nobleman ; regularly (in Mvy and LV ) rendered by Tib. tshan po ( Jä. dignitary, grandee ) che ( great ): (tasya dvau) °gnau saṃśritau Divy 372.12 ; tasyāpi °gno Bhadrāyudho nāmnānekasahasraparivāraḥ (can hardly mean athlete! ), sa bhagavacchāsane pravrajito 'rhan saṃvṛttaḥ 373.20 ; krodhāviṣṭasya °gnasya Gv 504.5 ; (vajraṃ mahāpraharaṇaṃ) na śakyaṃ mahānagnenāpi saṃdhārayituṃ 509.4 ; °gnā(ḥ) Kv 41.21 (printed mahāmagnā); Av ii.102.15 ; often in comp. with bala (the might of a mahānagna being evidently proverbial): °gnabalam Mvy 8210 ; °gna-balopetāni LV 200.21 (prose); sarve °gna-balair upetā LV 28.5 ( vs ); others, cpd. with bala, MSV i.100.10 ; Av ii.108.12 ; 110.3 ; with -balin, Av i.376.1, 4, 18 ; without -bala, duṣṭamalla-mahanagna-samā LV 153.8 ( vs ; maha = mahā, m.c. ). Cf. next.