dhvaja-baddhaka (7991)

dhvaja-baddhaka
Entry 7991, Page 288, Col. 1

(DvajabadDaka, Dvaja-badDaka)
dhvaja-baddhaka¦, f. °ikā, adj. (= Pali dhaja- baddha, Vin. i.74.30 °dhaṃ coraṃ; comm. 997.14 dhajaṃ bandhitvā viya caratīti dhajabandho [so also several mss. in text!], Mūladevādayo viya loke pākaṭo ti vuttaṃ hoti, i.e. notorious, as if having raised a banner of thievery; SBE [Page288-b+ 45] 13.196 who wears the emblems [of his deeds]; it is not clear where PTSD, which renders captured, gets authority for the allegation that āhaṭa is meant, since this is not in the comm. on the above Vin. passage, the only one quoted in PTSD s.v.), prob. notorious (as a robber): cauro dhvaja- baddhakaḥ Mvy 8799 = Tib. chom rkun por (as a robber- thief) grags pa (famous; but, curiously, this word may also mean bound, acc. to Jä. and Das!); mā caurī, mā dhvaja- baddhikā Bhīk 16b.2, you aren't a (female) thief? a notorious one? (in examination of a candidate for initiation, who must make negative answers). But note that mā is found before both caurī and dhva°, as if each were a noun; this arouses some uneasiness.