vipañcika (13905)

vipañcika
Entry 13905, Page 490, Col. 2

(vipaYcika, vipaYcika)
vipañcika¦, m., regularly pl. (to Skt. vipañcayati; cf. prec., also vaipañcaka, °cika, °canika), soothsayer; regularly preceded (like its relatives just listed) by parallel naimittika, both usually qualifying a preceding brāhma- ṇā(ḥ): brāhmaṇā ye naimittikā °kāś (mss.) Divy 319.14. 16, similarly 391.5; 475.5.