śvetāsthi (15355)

śvetāsthi
Entry 15355, Page 537, Col. 2

(SvetAsTi, SvetAsTi)
śvetāsthi¦, nt., with durbhikṣa, lit. white-bone, a kind of famine: Divy 131.21 (see s.v. cañcu); 24--132.3 śve° nāma durbhikṣaṃ tasmin kāle manuṣyā asthīny upasaṃ- hṛtya tāvat kvāthayanti yāvat tāny asthīni śvetāni saṃvṛttānīti tatas tat kvāthaṃ pivanti; idaṃ śvetāsthi durbhikṣam ity ucyate; similarly MSV i.250.13.