mudrA
mudrā (in these mgs. not in Skt. ), ( 1 ) (= Pali muddā, acc. to PTSD art of calculation ; assoc. with gaṇanā; acc. to DN comm. i.95.19 hattha-muddā-gaṇanā, cf. Tib. below, while gaṇanā is acchiddaka-( q.v. CPD )-gaṇanā), some method of calculation, acc. to Tib. on LV ( cf. DN comm. above) lag rtsis , hand-calculation , that is, presumably, figuring by using the fingers in some conventional way ( Das renders this Tib. lines or marks in the hands, palmistry , and so Burnouf on Divy 26.12 chiromancie , Introd. 237 , but the regular context seems to disprove this); always in a list of arts learned by a young man, and associated with mathematical terms: between saṃkhyā and gaṇanā, LV 4.21 ; after saṃkhyā and gaṇanā, before dhāraṇā , Mv ii.423.15 ; -gaṇanāṃ ( v.l. °nā-)dhāraṇamudrāṃ Mv iii.184.7 ; after saṃkhyā and gaṇanā, before uddhāra, Divy 3.18 ; 26.12 ; 58.17 ; 100.1 ; 441.28 ; 485.5 (here uddhāra is omitted); after gaṇana-nyasana-saṃkhyā- Bbh 7.5 ; 103.3 ; 210.13 ; ( 2 ) wages ( perh. cf. Skt. Lex. id. , coin , and AMg. muddā, coin? ): divasa-mudrā SP 105.11 ; 109.3—4 , daily wage (so Tib. , gla ba ); ( 3 ) a high number: Mvy 8030 . See also dharma-mudrā .