musAra
musāra, musāgalva (often in Mv , nowhere else), musāragalva (the regular BHS form), musāragalvārka, musālagalva (?), sometimes miswritten susāra(galva, °galvārka) in mss. and even in edd. ( Divy 67.18 , Mmk 120.22 ), m. (rarely nt. ), a kind of precious stone. Recorded once in Skt. , musāragalva, said to mean a kind of coral ( pw ); otherwise forms with mu- only noted in BHS ; but cf. Skt. masāra and masāragalvarka (rarely written °vārka), said to mean sapphire or emerald ; Pali masāragalla, usually said to mean catʼs eye , but Burnouf found a Pali Lex. source identifying it with pavāla, coral ( Lotus 319 f. ) and hence adopted this mg. for BHS , followed by Senart Mv i.415 , and doubtfully by Kern SBE 21.147 n. 2 ; AMg. masāra and °ra-galla, said to mean sapphire ; in recent years most interpreters of BHS have left the exact mg. undetermined; it usually occurs in rigmarole lists of various gems (once, at least, pravāla, coral , occurs earlier in the same list, Mv ii.472.1—2 ); Tib. on Mvy 5956 spug , a gem which Jä. leaves unidentified, while Das gives as Skt. equivalent (kakkatana and) karketana, said to mean catʼs-eye ( cf. Pali above); clearly masc. gender when unambiguous, as a rule, e.g. Mvy 5956 ; Divy 51.25 , etc. , but musāraṃ, n. sg. , Mmk 120.22 ; besides this last, stem musāra Mv iii.323.13 in one ms. ( v.l. musāgalva; Senart musāragalva); vaiḍūrya-musāra-pratyuptāṃ Laṅk 3.5 ; musālagalva (rare) Mvy 5956 (but Mironov musāra°, no v.l. ); Mv iii.304.12 (so, or musā-g°, mss. , Senart em. musāra°); musāgalva in text, no v.l. , Mv i.194.9, 10 ; 196.17 ; 249.6 ; iii.227.7 ; 228.2, 14 ; 229.13 ; 323.16 ; 324.6 ; read musā-g°, with most mss. or requirements of meter, i.49.11 ; 63.2 ; ii.186.13 ; text musāra° but mss. divided evenly with v.l. musā°, i.49.14 ; ii.177.17 ; 180.14 ; 191.5 ; 310.8 ; 316.8 ; 472.2 ; iii.226.11 ; 232.10 ; musāragalvārka ( cf. Skt. above) Divy 67.18 ( ed. susā°); 138.3 ; the regular form in all texts is, however, musāragalva, Divy 51.25 ; 115.3 ; 229.7 ; 297.25 ; 502.7 ; Av i.205.3 ; Gv 52.15 ; 89.25 ; 148.13 ; Dbh 46.19 ; Bbh 5.10 ; 234.1 ; SP 151.2 ; 153.4 ; 239.7 ; 256.12 ; LV 383.2 , etc.