無む始し

noun

beginninglessness

Buddhist term for the concept that existence has no beginning; often used in contexts like 無始無終 (without beginning or end).

• 仏ぶっ教きょうでは、輪りん廻ねは無む始しであると説とかれる。

  In Buddhism, it is taught that the cycle of rebirth is beginningless.

noun

distant past

Archaic use referring to a time so remote that its beginning is unknown; rarely used in modern Japanese outside classical or literary contexts.

• その伝でん説せつは無む始しの昔むかしから語かたり継つがれてきた。

  The legend has been passed down since time immemorial.