utkṣipati (3343)

utkṣipati
Entry 3343, Page 122, Col. 1

(utkzipati, utkzipati)
utkṣipati¦ (Skt. in mg. lifts up, etc.), (1) lets up in sense of permits to ascend, opp. nikṣipati: LV 186.(12--)13f. ekaikasya ca prāsādasya sopānāni pañca-pañca puruṣa- śatāny utkṣipanti sma nikṣipanti sma (let go up and down); teṣāṃ tathotkṣipyamāṇānāṃ nikṣipyamāṇānāṃ ca śabdo 'rdhayojane śrūyate sma; (2) (= Pali ukkhipati) suspends (from the order of monks); ppp. utkṣipta: Bhīk 29b.1 utkṣiptānuvartaka (see anuvartaka); similarly Mvy 8480 utkṣiptānuvṛttiḥ, the following (cleaving to) a suspended (monk), so Tib. spaṅs paḥi…; (3) averts (the senses, particularly the eyes, from forbidden objects): Divy 278.29 indriyāṇy utkṣipati, and in the following lines; indriyāṇy utkṣipyāvasthitāḥ MSV iii.18.11, stood averting their eyes (in embarrassment); in this sense = Pali (indriyāni) okkhipati from avakṣipati, see avakṣipta; apparently BHS utkṣ° is false Skt. for MIndic okkh°; acc. to Chin. (eyes not cast to one side), anutkṣiptacakṣuṣo Prāt 529.10 would belong here; curiously the Pali equivalent, Vin. iv.186.29 okkhittacakkhu (note lack of negative!), appears to mean with downcast eyes, which the old comm. inter- prets by observing that it is a sin to enter a house or sit down looking around at this or that (tahaṃ tahaṃ olokento), so that okkhitta-, as opposite of this, would mean essen- tially the same as BHS an-utkṣipta- as interpreted by Chin. But for this evidence, an-utkṣipta-might be inter- preted, in accordance with Skt. usage, as not lifted up (thus in another way = okkhitta-).