adjective bald, shaven; a shaven, (bald-headed) ascetic, either a samaṇa, or a bhikkhu or (f.) bhikkhunī SN.i.175 (m. sanghāṭi-pāruta); Vin.iv.265 (f.); Snp.p.80 (= muṇḍita-sīsa Snp-a.402)
■ kaṇṇa˚; with cropped or shorn ears (applied to a dog) Pv.ii.12#10, cp muṇḍaka.

• -pabbataka a bare mountain Ja.i.303 (Hatthimatta) Vv-a.302 (variant reading for T. muṇḍika-pabbata).
• -vaṭṭin “shaven hireling” (?), a king’s servant, probably porter Vin.ii.137. The explⁿ given by Bdhgh on p. 319 (on CV. v. 29. 5) is twofold, viz. malla-kammakar’ ādayo viya kacchaṃ banditvā nivāsenti; and muṇḍa-veṭṭhī (sic) ti yathā rañño kuhiñci gacchanto parikkhāra-bhaṇḍavahana-manussā ti adhippāyo. Maybe that reading veṭi is more correct.
• -sira shaven head Dhp-a.ii.125.

cp. BSk. muṇḍa