The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

transparent; it is expld by Bdhgh as meaning a man speaking half -- truths, as in a soup of beans some are
only half -- boiled. The expln is forced, & is stereotype,
-- 535 --
as well as is the combn in which it occurs. Its origin remains to be elucidated. Anyhow it refers to an
unevenness in character, a flaw of character. The passage (with var. spellings) is always the foll.:
c!&ukamyat! (p!tu˚ Nd2; ˚kammat! Miln; p!&u˚ Vbh) mugga -- s(pyat! (˚s(pat! Nd2; ˚suppat! Miln &
KhA 236; ˚s(pat! and suppat! Vbh & VbhA 338; supyat! Vism) p!ribha&&at! (˚bhatyat! Vism.; ˚bha&&akat!
Miln; ˚bha&yat! & ˚bbha&&at! Vbh). At Nd2 391 it is used to explain s!vajja -- bhogin, at Vism 17 & Vbh
246 an!c!ra; at Vbh 352 lapan!; at Miln 370 it is used generally (cp. Miln trsl. ii.287). The C. expln of the
Vbh passage, as given at (VbhA 483 &) Vism 17 runs as follows: "mugga -- s(pa -- sam!n!ya sacc' âlikena
j"vita kappanat!y' eta' adhivacana'. Yath! hi muggas(pe paccante bah( mugg! p!ka' gacchanti, thok! na
gacchanti, evam eva saccâlikena j"vitakappake puggale bahu' alika' hoti, appaka' sacca'." The text at
VbhA 483 is slightly different, although the sense is the same. Similarly at Vism 27.
Muggatiya
Muggatiya (nt.?) [fr. mugga?] a plant, according to C. a species of bean J vi.536.
Muggara
Muggara [cp. Sk. mudgara] a club, hammer, mallet J i.113; ii.196, 382; v.47; vi.358; Miln 351; Vism 231;
DhA i.126; ii.21; PvA 4, 55 (ayo˚), 56 (˚pah!ra), 66, 192. The word is specifically peculiar to the so --
called J!taka style.
Mucala
Mucala occurs as simplex only in Np. Mah! -- mucala -- m!laka Mhvs 15, 36. It refers to the tree
mucalinda, of which it may be a short form. On the other hand mucal -- inda appears to the speaker of P!li
a cp. noun, viz. king of the mucala(s) (trees). Its (late?) Sk. correspondent is mucilinda, of which the P.
form may be the regular representative (cp. Geiger P.Gr. § 34). -- 1. the tree Barringtonia acutangula
(Nicula*, of which it may be a dialectical distortion: *Abhp 563 nicula>*mucula> *mucala) Vin i.3; J
v.405 (˚ketak!, Dvandva); vi.269 (id.). -- 2. N. of a n!ga (serpent) king Vin i.3. -- 3. N. of a great lake J
vi.534, 535.
Mucchati
Mucchati [murch, an enlargement of Vedic m(r to get stiff (as in m(ra stupid, dull, cp. Gr. mwro/s; Sk.
m(rakha foolish). Used in 2 senses, viz. (a) to become stiff & (b) (Caus.) to harden, increase in tone, make
louder. From (a) a fig. meaning is derived in the sense of to become dulled or stupid, viz. infatuated,
possessed. See also Lüders in K.Z. xlii.194 a. How far we are justified to connect Dhtp 216 m( & 503
mu ("bandhane") with this root is a different question. These 2 roots seem to be without connections. --
m(rch itself is at Dhtp 50 defined with "mohe"] 1. (spelt muccati) to become stiff, congeal, coagulate,
curdle Dh 71; DhA ii.67. -- 2. to become infatuated D iii.43 (majjati+). -- 3. only in Caus. muccheti to make
sound, to increase in tone J ii.249 (v"*a'); iii.188 (id.). -- pp. mucchita.
Mucchan!
Mucchan! (f.) [fr. mucchati 2] swelling or rising in tone, increase of sound J ii.249 (v"*a' uttama --
mucchan!ya mucchetv! v!desi).
Mucchañcikat!