anagārikā; anagāriya (521)

anagārikā; anagāriya
Entry 521, Page 19, Col. 1

(anagArikA, anagArikA; anagAriya)
anagārikā; anagāriya¦, nt.; anāgāra (nt.); anā- gārikā (= Pali anagāriya or anā°, generally nt.; anagāra nt. only once, Sn 376, otherwise m. and personal, also °rika, adj. and m. subst., personal; °rikā not in Pali), homeless (ascetic) life. In most texts anagārikā (LV 18.8; 101.19; 103.20; Divy 17.17; 37.12; 141.1; Samādh 8.15, etc.; rare in Mv, ii.69.1 with v.l. °riya), or anāgārikā (Av i.136.6, so best ms., text ana°; i.234.1, no v.l.; Bbh 26.12; °kāṃ pravrajyāṃ Bhīk 10b.1), are the regular forms, but in Mv it is almost always anagāriya as in Pali; this has not been noted elsewhere. Regularly in acc. sg. °rikāṃ, °riyaṃ (only once anāgāraṃ [mss., Senart ana°] upetasya Mv iii.387.1) depending on a form of pra-vraj (rarely of abhi-niṣ-kram, Mv ii.161.5 ff.), and preceded by abl. (or in Mv gen.) of agāra, retire from the home to the homeless life. In this phrase the preceding form is always agārād in all texts other than Mv, and sometimes there (ii.161.5 ff.; iii.408.2); in Mv also agārato iii.378.4; agārāto iii.176.2; agārebhyo i.128.10; read agārasmā, the Pali form, for agārasthā i.104.8; but most commonly the gen. agārasya i.322.15; 323.1; ii.117.18, 20; 140.3; 271.8; iii.50.11--12; 213.2--3.