Salya
śalya ( m. or nt. ; = Pali salla, see below), rope , as something that holds fast together; shipʼs cable, hawser : kṣānti-soratya-(= sau°) -smṛti-śalya-baddhā(ḥ) KP 153.5 , ( the ‘ship of the Doctrine’ , dharmanāvā, line 2) that is moored (made fast) by the ropes of kṣānti, sauratya and smṛti ; so Tib. , bzod pa daṅ des pa daṅ dran pa ḥi sbyor kas ( sbyor , connection, joining, fastening ; instr. ) legs par sbyar ba . Pali salla in a similar sense should be recognized in Therīg. 347 kāmā … sallabandhanā, desires which bind with cables (the usual meaning of salla, tho adopted in PTSD and Mrs. Rhys Davidsʼ transl. , clearly makes no sense); comm. 242.7 rāgādīnaṃ sallānaṃ bandhanato sallabandhanā ( tatp. , not dvandva; and if rāgādi could be called arrows or spears , kṣānti etc. of KP could not!).