Jāla
Jāla,1 (nt.) [Vedic jāla,prob.from jaṭ to plait,make a tangle cp.jaṭita & jaṭā; on l:ṭ cp.phulla:sphuṭa; cāru:cāṭu; cela:ceṭa] a net; netting,entanglement (lit.or fig.):snare,deceptíon (=māyā).-- A.I,it.Nd2 260 (=suttajāla,a plaiting of threads); SnA 115,263 (=suttamaya) D.I,45 (anto-jālikata caught in a net); Sn.62,71,213,669; J.I,52; VI,139.-- kiṅkiṇika° a row of bells D.II,183; muttā° a net of pearls J.I,9; VvA.40; loha° PvA.153; hema° Vv 35; a fowler’s net Dh.174; a spider’s web Dh.347; nets for hair J.VI,188; pabbata° a chain of mountains J.II,399; sirā° network of veins J.V,69; PvA.68.-- Freq.in similes:see J.P.T.S.1907,90.-- B.Fig.Very often appld to the snares of Māra:S.I,48 (maccuno); Sn.357 (id.); DhA.III,175 (Māra°); Sn.527 (deception); taṇhā° the snare of worldly thirst (cp.°tanhā) M.I,271; Th.1,306; SnA 351; kāma° Th.1,355; moha° S.III,83; mohasama Dh.251; diṭṭhi° the fallacies of heresy D.I,46; J.VI,220; ñāṇa° the net of knowledge VvA.63; DhA.III,171.bhumma° (vijjā) “earthly net,” i.e.gift of clearsight extending over the earth SnA 353.
--akkhi a mesh of a net J.I,208:--taṇhā the net of thirst Dhs.1059,1136; DhsA.367; --pūpa a “netcake”? DhA.I,319; --hatthapāda (adj.) having net-like hands & feet (one of the 32 marks of a Mahāpurisa) prob.with reference to long nails D.II,17 (see Dial.II.14,note 3),cp.jālitambanakhehi Vv 8116 (expld at VvA.315:jālavantehi abhilohita-nakkehi.Tena jāli (v.l.jāla-) hatthataṁ mahāpurisa-lakkhaṇaṁ tambanakhataṁ anuvyañ anañ ca dasseti).(Page 283)