nivāsayati (8500)

nivāsayati
Entry 8500, Page 306, Col. 1

(nivAsayati, nivAsayati)
nivāsayati¦, generally as in Skt. puts on (a garment, regularly undergarment). So also Pali nivāseti, wrongly defined in PTSD to dress oneself…to get clothed or dressed. It is true that in the common cliché (kālyam eva, or the like) nivāsayitvā, LV 240.11 (vs); Mv i.34.14; 54.10; 307.14; iii.60.3; 255.15; 272.5; 414.5; or nivāsya, LV 407.13; Divy 20.2; Av i.290.16, etc.; no object is expressed. It is unnecessary to say what the monk puts on before starting his round of begging; the gerund however means strictly having put on (sc. the undergarment; cf. Prāt 527.8 cīvaraṃ nivāsayiṣyāmaḥ, with Chin. transl.; contrast prāvariṣyāmaḥ 529.1 ff., of the upper garment; same contrast in Pali, Vin. iv.185.18, 27). Once the verb is used in the causal sense of cause (someone else) to put on (an undergarment): Bhīk 11a.4 nivāsanaṃ nivāsayitavyā, (the nun) is to be caused (by the instructress) to put on the undergarment.