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उद्घटक (udghaTaka)

 
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
udghaṭaka, m. (see also udghāṭaka, ghaṭaka
twice recorded udghaṭṭaka in mss.), lit. one who opens or reveals, i.e. explains (science or techniques
so Leumann, cited by Wogihara, Lex. 〔19〕)
in cliché (aṣṭāsu parīkṣāsu, not in 〔100.5〕) udghaṭako vācakaḥ paṇḍitaḥ paṭupracāraḥ (…) saṃvṛttaḥ Divy 〔3.19〕
〔26.14〕
〔58.20〕
〔100.5〕 (in the last two udghaṭṭakaḥ)
same cliché reading ghaṭako for udgh° Divy 〔442.1〕
〔523.25〕
and with udghāṭako MSV 〔i.133.3〕
〔iii.20.2〕
he became an expounder, explainer, scholar, one of skillful performance (in the ‘eight testings’ of valuable things).
Schmidt Nachtrage zum Sanskrit Worterbuch
German
उद्घटक Adj. klug, Divyāvad. 26, 14 उद्घट्टक 58, 20
100, 6.