upoṣadha, (1) (3893)

upoṣadha, (1)
Entry 3893, Page 147, Col. 2

(upozaDa, upozaDa)
upoṣadha, (1)¦ nt. (but see under poṣadha, posatha; = Pali (u)posatha, m.; Jain Skt. pauṣadha, m.; AMg. posaha, m. and nt.; except a single case of posatha, q.v., BHS seems to have only forms ending in -dha, whereas Pali has only -tha; see prec. and foll. items), the Buddhist ‘sabbath’, four times a month, on which good laymen observed 8 śīla (see aṣṭāṅga), confessed, etc.: Mvy 7137 °dham, n. sg.; Mv i.255.13 °dhe; ii.177.20 (see upoṣati); iii.97.20 and 98.2 (vss), mss. poṣadhaṃ (acc.), Senart em. upo° m.c.; Divy 116.22 upoṣadhoṣitaḥ, but 116.21 poṣadhe and 118.27 poṣadhoṣitaḥ (all prose); (2) m., n. of a (cakra- vartin) king of old, grandson of Kalyāṇa, father of Mān- dhātar (= Pali Uposatha): Mvy 3556; Mv i.348.8; Divy 210.13 ff.; MSV i.66.7 ff.; 92.16; (3) m., n. of a devaputra who visited Buddha: Av i.336.1 ff.