གཏུན། | Glossary of Terms

The Sanskrit has the meaning of both a club or mace-like weapon, and a pestle used for grinding, which as a cylinder of wood or stone can also be utilized as a weapon. The former meaning makes sense in the context of the short list of weapons (34–43) found among the eighty designs, although the Tibetan has the meaning of “pestle.” Mahāvyutpatti no. 5890 equates gtun shing with musala. Here its image is the forty-first of the eighty designs on the palms and soles of the Tathāgata.