prativrata (10132)

prativrata
Entry 10132, Page 369, Col. 1

(prativrata, prativrata)
? prativrata¦, f. °ā, adj., true to vows (of chastity): °tānāṃ Mv iii.151.5, 7, applied to female ascetics (tāpasī- nāṃ 5); v.l. both times pati°, which could not apply here in its normal mg. true to one's husband (so also Pali pati- bbatā); AMg. paivvayā is glossed prativratā, and rendered thus in both Guj. and Hindi, yet the Skt. gloss is patiṃ vratayati (Ratnach.); for Skt. prati AMg. usually has paḍi, rarely pai.For Mvy 7261 pativratā a v.l. prati° is recorded; but there is no such v.l. in Mironov, and Tib. says clearly not unfaithful to her husband. Possibly MIndic forms of Skt. pativratā came to mean simply chaste, and then [Page369-b+ 71] became applicable even to female ascetics; the form prati° might then be an unhistorical hyper-Sktism.