āvusa (3020)

āvusa
Entry 3020, Page 108, Col. 1

(Avusa, Avusa)
āvusa¦, and other forms based on Pali āvuso, brother! (see s.v. āyuṣmaṃ): āvusa, as if voc. to a stem of that form, is used repeatedly as an address in AdP, e.g. 13.4, 10, 22, etc. In Mv i.91.6 (vs) Senart reads āvuso; meter needs --ux; mss. āyuṣaḥ (note that no form of āyuṣmant is metrically possible), ānuṣaḥ, onuṣaḥ, ānuṣa; in SP 378.1 (prose) Kashgar rec. āvusāho (for ed. āyuṣmanto), certainly to be read (voc. pl. of a stem āvusa, as in AdP, with ending āho, § 8.88); in Mv i.317.15, 16 (prose) āvusāvo seems to be found in the same sense (mss. unanimous on -vo; see § 8.89; in 16 mss. ānusāvo or anu°, but no v.l. in 15).