nikṛnta (8214)

nikṛnta
Entry 8214, Page 294, Col. 2

(nikfnta, nikfnta)
nikṛnta¦ (also nikṛntana? prob. only by error) adj. (= Pali nikanta, MN i.364.17), cut off; common in Divy and Av in mūla-ni°, cut off at the roots; mss. regularly read so; in Divy 539.5 they read °nikṛntana, which ed. em. °nikṛntita; otherwise edd. of both texts al- ways em. to nikṛtta, but the Pali word supports the reading of the mss. It is doubtless derived in some way from kṛntati, but the precise process is obscure to me: Divy 192.9; 313.15; 362.17; 387.6; 400.17; 425.5; 539.5 (see above); 583.15 (in 537.14 occurs nikṛntita-mūlaṃ); Av i.3.16 (one ms. here nikṛta, v.l. nikṛnta); 9.12; 24.11; 37.12; 51.2, etc.