adjective

1. made of ram(s) horn, said of a (very strong) bow Ja.ii.88 (˚dhanu); Ja.v.128 (˚singadhanu).
2. belonging to a ram, in meṇḍaka-pañha “question about the ram” Mil.90 alluding to the story of a ram in the Ummagga-jātaka (Ja.vi.353–Ja.vi.55), which is told in form of a question, so difficult & puzzling that nobody “from hell to heaven” (Ja.vi.354) can answer it except the Bodhisatta. Cp. Trenckner’s remark Mil.422.

fr. meṇḍa