muzwika
muṣṭika , also mauṣṭika, moṭṭ(h)ika ( cf. Pali muṭṭhika, app. only boxer, prize-fighter , assoc. with malla; from Skt. muṣṭi; AMg. muṭṭhiya, id. ; Skt. muṣṭika, n. of a roaming despised caste who guard corpses and eat dog-flesh, acc. to Rām. comm. = ḍomba; Skt. Lex. also goldsmith ), ( 1 ) perhaps = Skt. muṣṭika, n. of a gypsy-like low caste: SP 276.5 (prose) na caṇḍālān na mauṣṭikān na saukarikān … (considerably later in the list, na mallān nānyāni pareṣāṃ ratikrīḍāsthānāni tāni) nopasaṃkrāmati; SP 279.2 ( vs ), cited Śikṣ 48.2 , (kuryāt tehi na saṃstavam) caṇḍālamuṣṭikaiḥ śauṇḍais (so also Śikṣ , but WT cite Ḱ cāpi for śau°, and so Tib. , gdol ba daṅ ni zol ba for entire pāda) tīrthikaiś …; but both these may be otherwise interpreted; Tib. for both zol ba , trickster ; the Pali mg. boxer is also not out of the question (note malla in 276.6 , with reference to entertainers ; does Tib. zol ba mean here juggler, sleight-of-hand performer? see 2); ( 2 ) ( cf. Tib. on SP under 1) mauṣṭikaḥ Mvy 3808 , followed by vidūṣakaḥ, buffoon ; acc. to Tib. zol pa , trickster (possibly in the sense of juggler ); ( 3 ) possibly (= Pali muṭṭhika) boxer, fist-fighter : Mvy 7072 muṣṭikāḥ, v.l. mauṣṭikāḥ ( Mironov , and pw 7.368 , musuntikā, clearly corrupt) = Tib. khu tshur , fist ( Skt. muṣṭi); Chin. also fist ; Jap. fist , also trickster, low-class person ( prob. based on Tib. on 3808 ); ( 4 ) (as in Skt. Lex. ) goldsmith : (after suvarṇadhovakā , q.v. ) mauṣṭikā Mv iii.113.19 , or (same passage, list of artisans and craftsmen) moṭṭikā (so mss. , Senart moṭṭhikā) iii.443.6 ; goldsmiths are proverbially tricky, hence perhaps this is derived from mg. 2. The word mauṣṭika occurs, without preserved context, in Kalpanāmaṇḍitikā , see Lüdersʼ discussion , Kl. Skt. Texte 2 , 44 .