purastima (9614)

purastima
Entry 9614, Page 347, Col. 2

(purastima, purastima)
purastima¦, adj., with case-forms used as adv. and [Page348-a+ 71] quasi-prep. (= Pali AMg. puratthima; § 22.15), orig. no doubt in front, a mg. which is possible in one or two passages, but as a rule, and prob. always, used in the sense of eastern, in the east, easterly: °time diśo bhāge Mv i.123.6, 8, 10, 12, 14; ii.34.19; iii.306.6 (in same vs LV 388.8 pūrvasmin vai for °time, with ‘patchword’ vai indicating secondary correction to pūrvasmin); °māyāṃ (diśāyāṃ) Mv ii.139.8; iii.116.1, 3; 410.12, 13; °maś ca anto iii.334.2, 3; other cases of adj., Mv i.26.1; 40.7, 8 (°mā diśā); ii.95.20 (also with diśā); 136.17; adverbs, °maṃ Mv iii.256.7, 8, in the east; °mena Mv i.194.2; 249.3; ii.31.6; iii.226.7; Suv 120.5 (prose); °me, Mahāsamāj., Waldschmidt, Kl. Skt. Texte 4, pp. 5, 171 (ms. 127. V 1); as prep., °time nagarasya Mv iii.186.16, to the east (possibly in front) of the city. Cf. purima, which however rarely means eastern or in front (of space), but regularly former, first (of time).

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