nagarāvalambaka (8019)

nagarāvalambaka
Entry 8019, Page 289, Col. 1

(nagarAvalambaka, nagarAvalambaka)
nagarāvalambaka¦, m., and °ikā, f., seemingly city- washerman and -woman: m. only Śikṣ 9.4 tṛṇapradīpaṃ dattvā nagarāvalambaka-bhūtena (Bendall and Rouse, ignoring the fem. counterpart, inhabitant of the outskirts of the town, without evident justification); f. °ikā Mv iii.311.8, 18; 312.12 (no v.l.), apparently a woman whose job it was to hang out clothes (to dry?), cf. 311.11 pāṃ- sukūlaṃ (which she has just presented to the Bodhisattva) vṛkṣaśākhāye olambitvā; the gerund seems to suggest her occupation. Senart Introd. p. xxix, étendeuse de linge (which is surely far better than his suggestion, note p. 505, that velambikā be read by em.; this is clearly impossible, see s.v. velambaka); Divy 82.11, 28; 84.24; 89.20, 26 = MSV i.80.16 ff. (in these passages no light seems to be thrown on the meaning by the context).