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Entry 13229, Page 468, Col. 2 -
(vaRika, vaRika)
vaṇika¦ (perh. hyper-Skt. for Pkt. vaṇiya = next; or, a-extension of Skt. vaṇik, n. sg. treated as ‘stem’, § 15.8, owing to its use as stem in composition; acc. to Senart i.367 MIndic vaṇi (= vaṇij) plus -ka; the parallel *bhiṣaka there cited is a false form; SP 292.11, vs, reads bhiṣaṭka without v.l., and *bhiṣaka would be metr. impossible), merchant: vaṇika-śreṣṭhi-bhūtena Mv i.1.8 (prose).
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