saṃkāra (15518)

saṃkāra
Entry 15518, Page 545, Col. 1

(saMkAra, saMkAra)
saṃkāra¦, m. (= Skt. Lex. and Pali id.; note Skt. Lex. saṃkara, id., but in Caraka dung), (1) primarily, dust, sweepings, refuse, rubbish: Mvy 9313 = Tib. phyag dar; tayā dārikayā gṛhaṃ saṃmṛjya…°raḥ choritaḥ Divy 585.4; °ra-kūṭa (Pali id.), rubbish heap (see 2 below), Divy 177.10 (tair hastapādeṣu gṛhītvā °kūṭe kṣipto), 11; [Page545-b+ 71] saṃkārāvakare śukle (read so, or °kara-śukle, for text śaṃkārāpakare śuklaṃ) paṭe…Mmk 131.21 (vs), on a cloth pure in regard to sweepings and rubbish (i.e. free from them); lumbinivanaṃ…vyapagatatṛṇa-reṇu-(read khā- ṇu-? see next)-pattra-saṃkāraṃ Mv i.149.3 (vs); padmini- vanaṃ…(read)apagata-tṛṇa-khāṇu-pattra-saṃkāraṃ i. 215.14 (so mss., except khāṇḍa for khāṇu, q.v.), and read so ii.18.10 lumbinivanaṃ…(mss. °saṃkara, and again khāṇḍa for khāṇu); Senart em. saṃskāraṃ and saṃkhā- raṃ, respectively, for saṃkāraṃ in the last two; (2) seems to mean more specifically dung, perh. in °ra-kūṭa (cf. 1 above), dung-heap, privy(?): so 'medhyasthāneṣv evābhi- ramate saṃkārakūṭe jambāle (mss. jā°) keśāṃl luñcati amedhyaṃ mukhe prakṣipati Av i.280.5 (? but jambāla simply mud, so perh. saṃkāra-k° rubbish-heap); and more especially in SP 105.12 ff., 109.2, 113.13 and 114.4 (but Tib. renders phyag dar thruout), where saṃkāra-dhāna (Pali id.) seems to mean privy: °naṃ śodhayitavyaṃ 105.12; similarly 106.1, 3; dharmān pratyavarān °dhāna- sadṛśān 109.2; °dhānam imu mahya pūtikam uccāra- prasrāva-vināśitaṃ ca 113.13 (vs), especially clear, stinking, foul with dung and urine; 114.4 (vs); (3) perh. impurity in the sense of pariahhood, outcaste state, expulsion from caste: (vayaṃ tvāṃ) jñātimadhyād utkṣipāmaḥ, saṃkāraṃ pātayāmo Divy 273.2, 11; but mss. are not unanimous, and in same phrase 272.24 it is alleged that they read salokānāṃ (! kept in text) for saṃkāraṃ; quite uncertain. Cf. saṃkirati.