pramardaka (10432)

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pramardaka
Entry 10432, Page 383, Col. 1
(pramardaka, pramardaka)
pramardaka¦, adj., m. (Skt. pra-mard- plus -aka, but nowhere recorded), destroying, one who destroys: sar- vāpara-°ka(ḥ) LV 433.2, of Buddha; chiefly in a cliché describing heroic sons, gen. pl. parasainya-°kānāṃ Mv i.49.5; 193.18; ii.158.17; iii.378.1; Divy 548.28; Gv 399.15; LV 18.6-7; in LV 22.7 same cpd., gen. pl., which here seems to have been carelessly repeated from the cliché (tho no v.l. is reported); a n. sg. is required, like the prec. series of epithets of a king.