asita, (1) (2451)

asita, (1)
Entry 2451, Page 84, Col. 1

(asita, asita)
asita, (1)¦ adj. (black, and hence) inauspicious, offen- sive; so AMg. asiya = aśubha, Sheth, Ratnach.; not in Skt. or Pali: LV 327.8 (vs) na ca jara asitā, and (while) there is no offensive old age (so Tib, mi śis, normally = aśubha); (2) adj. (= Pali id.; a-sita), unfettered, free: of Buddha, MPS 12.9; MSV i.12.14; (3) m. (= Pali id.), n. of a well-known sage, ‘the Buddhist Simeon’: LV 101.1 ff. (his story told); 253.1, 15; Mv ii.30.13 ff. (his story; in 37.13 called Kāla (5), q.v., if Senart is right); 144.8; 151.12; he was the maternal uncle of Nālaka, q.v., Mv iii.382.16; Divy 391.6; (4) n. of a Bodhisattva: Gv 442.18; (5) m. or nt., n. of a plant, as var. in mss. for āśītakī, q.v.