vā (13461)

vā
Entry 13461, Page 475, Col. 2

(vA, vA)
(vā¦, see also va, in the mgs. of iva and eva; also in Skt., see BR, pw; not in Pali, but in AMg.; in BHS used in prose and in metr. indifferent positions in vss; (1) = iva, as, like: siṃho vā asaṃtrasto Mv i.4.6 (prose); (Lumbini- vanaṃ…) manojñaṃ karotha (mss.)…devabhuvanaṃ vā 149.4; siṃho vā nadate vane 188.7; jvalito agniskandho vā 252.14; (abhiramantu, mss. °ta, °tā)…nandanagatā vā maruputrā iii.71.1 (prose); kṣubhitajalanidhir vā śrūyate eva śabdo LV 80.15 (in LV noted only in vss, but sometimes in metr. indiff. positions); gehaṃ praviṣṭa nṛpater amarālayaṃ vā 115.6; adhruva capalagāmi mārutaṃ vā 242.6, like the wind; sudurbalā (confirmed in Tib.) bṛṃhaṇa kāṅkṣiṇo vā (Tib. ḥdra, like) 399.8; others, LV 79.13; 132.13; 241.6; (2) = eva (rather than vai with Senart i note 376), precisely, just: na ca vā (= na caiva, and not at all) loke kiṃcit pāpaṃ karma kara- ṇīyaṃ Mv i.8.14; 28.1; 31.14; read with mss., āvṛṃhato chavi-mānsa-rudhiraṃ vā i.13.2; yathā vedaṃ (= vā, or va, for eva, idaṃ)…39.4, exactly as (but in repetition 40.1 yathāpi); ettakakalpā vā 77.14, of just so many kalpas in extent; the bhūmis of Bodhisattvas can not be measured thus.)