--gocarika (5843)

--gocarika
Entry 5843, Page 215, Col. 2

<k1>gocarika<k2>--gocarika
--gocarika¦, adj., (1) providing sustenance (see s.v. gocara, 3) for… (monks): (tatraiko) baṇig bhikṣugoca- rikaḥ Divy 307.21; (2) (= Pali gocariya, see below), ? an epithet of wool, some of which is to be used in making coverlets for monks, Prāt 496.10, 12; they are to be made of two parts ‘pure black’ (śuddha-kāḍānāṃ) wool, one part white (avadātānāṃ), and the fourth part gocarikā- nāṃ (gen. pl.), which acc. to Finot is rendered in Chin. by (wool) of inferior quality. In the close Pali parallel Vin. iii.226.25 ff. (ignored in PTSD; Childers records it from Minayeff's Prātimokṣa S.) the corresponding epithet, gocariya, is said by the comm. 684.21 to mean tawny (kapilavaṇṇānaṃ); this is adopted by Childers; also transl. SBE 13.25 ‘of the colour of oxen (reddish brown)’, or (below) ‘tawny’; it seems like a dubious guess.

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