siMhalatA
siṃha-latā , some kind of ornament, placed on trees and stūpas, and in groves (on their trees?); precise mg. can only be guessed ( Müller on Sukh ‘lion twists’ ; Senart , Mv ii note 553 , ‘ peut-étre … des enroulements combinés de feuillage et de lions ’ ): Sukh 54.11 (among ornaments of Amitāyusʼs bodhi-tree); °tāhi … samalaṃkṛtaṃ bodhivṛkṣaṃ saṃjānetsuḥ Mv ii.311.13 ; siṃhalatāhi (or siṃho-, mss. ; Senart em. siṃhī°, m.c. ; better siṃhā° = siṃha°) sphuṭā bodhivṛkṣe ( em. , mss. sphuṭe °kṣo) Mv ii.317.8 ( vs ); (udyānaṃ … saṃchannaṃ …) °latā-jālaiḥ Gv 101.24 ; °latāḥ suruciravarṇasūtrā(ḥ) Śikṣ 302.2 ( vs ), in passage vaguely parallel to Mv ii.317.8 ; suruci° may be a parallel and independent ornament, rather than an ep. of siṃhalatā; here decorations of a stūpa.