udghaṭaka (3543)

udghaṭaka
Entry 3543, Page 129, Col. 2

(udGawaka, udGawaka)
udghaṭaka¦, m. (see also udghāṭaka, ghaṭaka; twice recorded udghaṭṭaka in mss.), lit. one who opens or reveals, i.e. explains (science or techniques; so Leumann, cited by Wogihara, Lex. 19); in cliché (aṣṭāsu parīkṣāsu, not in 100.5) udghaṭako vācakaḥ paṇḍitaḥ paṭupracāraḥ (…) saṃvṛttaḥ Divy 3.19; 26.14; 58.20; 100.5 (in the last two udghaṭṭakaḥ); same cliché reading ghaṭako for udgh° Divy 442.1; 523.25; and with udghāṭako MSV i.133.3; iii.20.2; he became an expounder, explainer, scholar, one of skillful performance (in the ‘eight testings’ of valuable things).