upasthāyaka (3836)

upasthāyaka
Entry 3836, Page 144, Col. 1

(upasTAyaka, upasTAyaka)
upasthāyaka¦, m., f. °ikā; rarely (Divy 426.27; MSV i.30.10; 90.7) m. °ika (once also upasthāka, q.v.; Skt. seems to have m. °ika very rarely, see pw, but no °aka; Pali only upaṭṭhāka recorded), servant, attendant: SP 95.9 (vs) °kā nitya parasya; 215.6 bhagavataś caite putrā bhagavataś copasthāyakā(ḥ); 245.1 te buddhā bhagavanta upasthāyakadvitīyā upasthāyakatṛtīyā(ḥ); 293.4; LV 91.17 (vs) upasthāyikās (f.) te vayaṃ, and 19; 421.18 (vs), read, teṣa munina ye (ed. muninaye) upasthāyakāḥ; Mv i.249.1 °yako; 251.22 Ānando…upasthāyako (sc. of Śākyamuni) bhaviṣyati; 322.18 teṣāṃ (of aged parents) nāsty anyo upasthāyako, and similarly ii.214.5; i.326.5 ff. °yako, attendant of a Buddha (like Ānanda, above); f. °yikā ii.433.14; °yikāye (so read with v.l. for °yakāye) 467.3; (chandako…bhagavato kumārabhūtasya) upas- thāyako iii.91.8; vaidyabhaiṣajyopasthāyaka-…pratya- yasaṃpadam Gv 328.8; upasthāyaka Divy 35.25; 50.27 (glānopa°); 90.13 (buddhānāṃ); 612.2 (Ānando nāma śramaṇagautamasya); in 426.27 upasthāyikāś, n. pl. m., all mss., while in 29 below all have vaidyopasthāyakāś ca visarjitāḥ, of the same persons. [Page144-b+ 71]