ekameka (4054)

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ekameka
Entry 4054, Page 153, Col. 2
(ekameka, ekameka)
ekameka¦, āmreḍita cpd. (= Pali id., Skt. ekaika; m ‘hiatus-bridger’), one by one: SP 146.3 (vs) °ke, nom. pl. m. (vṛkṣa); LV 172.21 (vs) ekameka (nom. sg. f.) buddhapūj’ acintiyā (so interpret text); 237.3 (vs) ekameka (nom. sg. m.)…suro; 310.2 (vs) bhujaikamekena (= bhujā, nom. pl., ek°, adv.), the (100) arms, one by one; Mv ii.49.12 ekameko; each one (of a group), each separate one, Mv ii.178.14 °ko samartho…; °kasmiṃ Mv ii.191.21; 273.11, 12; 485.11; 490.12; in Mv iii.358.5 (prose) ekame- kāye hastāye, seems to be intensive āmreḍita, for just one (single) hand, since line 7 refers back to this with hasto chinno, and the second hand is specifically dealt with in line 9; yet in so loosely written a text as Mv it is perhaps possible that the phrase in line 5 means for each hand in turn.

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