sAlamBa
sālambha , m. (may be specialized use of sārambha = Pali id. , which so far as I know is not recorded of physical fighting; in some LV mss. v.l. sār° occurs sometimes for this), app. (contest of) wrestling : °bhaḥ Mvy 4998 = Tib. gyad kyi ḥdzin staṅs , lit. an athleteʼs style (or posture ) of grasping , Das = saṃgrāho mallasya, saṃlambha (! not recorded elsewhere; prob. Das ʼs ‘correction’ for sāl°), ‘the mode of seizing in wrestling’ : (in lists of arts) asi-dhanu(ṣ)kalāpa-yuddha-sālambha- LV 4.21 ; 143.6 ; 144.8 ; in all these Tib. as on Mvy above, and so also for °bha-(dhanurvede) LV 156.9 ; that wrestling is meant seems confirmed by LV 152.10 ff. , in which the Bodhisattva defeats the Śākya youths in what can only be wrestling ( cf. esp. 152.18—20 ); our word occurs there several times, Śākyakumārāḥ sālambhāya sthitāḥ 152.11 , stood ready for wrestling ; similarly abhigatau °bhāya 12; °bhāyāgacchata 22; here, [Page594-a] however, Tib. renders always by brgal ba (once preceded by stobs , force ), a general word for fight .