'adhimukti'

[franco at RZ.UNI-LEIPZIG.DE]

Dear McComas,
Check out adhimuccati in the CPD.
With best wishes,
Eli



Quoting McComas Taylor <mccomas.taylor at ANU.EDU.AU>:

> Dear friends
>
> A colleague, Ruth Gamble, has posted me this question:
>
> "The word is adhimukti [mos pa or mos gus in Tibetan].  In one of  
> the poems I am looking at it is used in conjunction with spyod pa,  
> or carya -- adhimukticarya...  adhi [above, over, on] and mukti is  
> liberation, right?  So why does the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon  
> list the meaning for adhimukti as "propensity, confidence"?  And,  
> more intriguingly, why do you think most Tibetan translators  
> translate mos pa/mos gus as "devotion"?"
>
> A can anyone cast any light on why adhimukti might mean 'propensity,  
> confidence'?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> McComas
>
>