vaṅka (13130)

vaṅka
Entry 13130, Page 467, Col. 1

(vaNka, vaNka)
vaṅka¦, adj. (= Pali id., Skt. vakra, which exists side by side in BHS, sometimes juxtaposed with vaṅka; § 3.4; cf. a-vaṅka), crooked, (1) literally and physically: SP 113.11 vaṅkāś ca ye kāṇaka kuṇṭhakāś ca; 350.9 vaṅkoṣṭho, and 10 vaṅkamukho (in same context vakra- danto 8, vakranāso 9); Mv iii.283.11 kubjagopānasī-vaṅkā; both lit. and fig., RP 58.7 (kāya-)vāk-citta-vaṅkāḥ, crooked in body, speech, and mind; (2) fig. crooked, dis- honest, deceitful: SP 48.7 vaṅkāḥ śaṭhā; 268.5 śaṭhā vaṅka- jātīyāḥ (with only 1 ms., others vañcaka-j°; but LaVallée Poussin JRAS 1911.1075 vaṅka-jātikāḥ); 272.1 durbud- dhinaś ca vaṅkāś ca śaṭhā…; Mv i.96.5 akṣa-vaṅka- dyūta-krīḍā-; 164.14 vaṅkāvakāśā (so Senart for mss. °kāśaṃ ca, unmetr.) vigato, free from possibility of deceit(?); Mvy 7322 (the next word is vakraḥ); Śikṣ 230.3 doṣa- vaṅka-śāṭhya-kuhanāṃ; (3) n. of a mountain (= Pali id.) to which Viśvantara was banished: Jm 55.12 ff.

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