gopānasī (5873)

gopānasī
Entry 5873, Page 217, Col. 1

(gopAnasI, gopAnasI)
gopānasī¦ (once, in mss., °sa; rare in Skt., see BR 5, Addenda, and pw; = Pali id., essentially Buddhist word; cf. Skt. gopāna, °naka, Acharya, Dict. Hind. Arch. s.v.), framework of a roof, rafters: Mvy 5580; gopānasī vigaḍita tatra sarvā SP 83.5 (vs; of a ruined house); (-sālāyāṃ… vivṛtāyāṃ) gopānasy-āntarikāś ca virājante LV 254.11, the interstices of the roof-frame; similarly 256.1 and °sīye antarāṇi, or °sī-antarāṇi, vivaṭāni Mv ii.125.14; 127.1; 128.7; 129.9; because of curvature, used as type of the bent-over posture of old men (so Pali °sī-vaṅka), kubjo °sī-vakro vibhagno LV 188.1; Kv 48.12 (text °ṇasī°, and wrongly divided in ed.); in parallel passage, bhagno °sī-vakro Mv ii.150.19; kubja-gopānasī-vaṅkā Mv iii.283.11; kubja-gopānasī- (ms. °sa, em. Speyer)-vakrā Av ii.25.8.

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