ṣaṣṭhī (15376)

ṣaṣṭhī
Entry 15376, Page 538, Col. 2

(zazWI, zazWI)
[ṣaṣṭhī¦, in Mv ii.21.2 (vs): (atra kiṃ kāraṇaṃ uktaṃ yaṃ sapta kramate kramān,) na ca aṣṭa na ca ṣaṣṭhī atra āgamanaṃ śṛṇu,…why he takes seven steps, and not eight or…(?) Senart em. ṣaṣṭi, sixty, which seems to be correct; see P. Mus, Barabudur 492, 480; Mv i.318.10 caṅkrama-ṣaṣṭiḥ, a promenade of sixty paces. The only alternative, so far as I see, would be the unattractive one of understanding the ordinal ṣaṣṭhī in the mg. of the cardinal, six; the sense would, to be sure, then be simple.]