feminine · muddā 1 · muddā 2
seal
a seal; a stamp; an impression; gesture; printing
Muddā (feminine) [cf. (late?) Sanskrit mudrā] 1. a seal, stamp, impression; — rāja° the royal seal Dhp-a I 21. Also with reference to the State Seal at Miln 280, 281 in compounds muddakāma (amacca) and mudda-paṭilābha. 2. the art of calculation mentioned as a noble craft (ukkaṭṭhaṃ sippaṃ) at Vin IV 7 (with gaṇanā and lekhā), as the first of the sippāni (with gaṇanā) at M I 85 = Nidd II §199. Further at Miln 3, 59, 78 f., 178. Cf. BHS mudrā in same sense (e.g. at Divy 3, 26, 58 in set lipyā, saṅkhyā, gaṇanā, m.). Buddhaghosa's explanation of muddā D I 11 m. + gaṇanā (see Sv I 95) as "hattha-muddā-gaṇanā" is doubtful; since at Miln 78 f. muddā and gaṇanā are two quite different things. See also Franke, Dīgha translation page 18, with note (he marks muddā "Finger-rechnen" with?); and cf. Kern, Toev. I 166 sub voce muddā. The D.B. I 21 translates "counting on the fingers" (see D.B. I 21, 22 with literature and more references). — hattha° is sign language, gesture (literally hand-arithmetic), a means of communicating (question and answer) by signs, as clearly evident from Ja VI 364 (hattha-muddāya naṃ pucchissāmi ... muṭṭhiṃ akāsi, sā "ayaṃ me ... pucchati" ti ñatvā hatthaṃ vikāsesi, so ñatvā ...; he then asks by word of mouth); — hattha-muddaṃ karoti to make a sign, to beckon Ja III 528; cf. Vin V 163: na hatthavikāro kātabbo, na hattha-muddā dassetabbā; -ādhikaraṇa the office of the keeper of the Privy Seal, Chancellorship Miln 281.
【陰】 印章，印記，蓋印，手勢，印刷。~paka,【陽】 印刷者。~pana,【中】 印刷。~yanta,【中】 印刷機。
(fem, fem) calculation; mathematics [lit.] finger counting Construction: √mud + rā
(fem, fem) printing; inscribing seal, stamp, impression, printing Construction: √mud + rā
(fem, fem) gesture; formal posture Construction: √mud + rā