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वैवर्णिक (vaivarNika)

 
Apte
English
वैवर्णिक [vaivarṇika],
a.
Variegated (said especially of a variety of coral)
Kau.
A.
2.11.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
वैवर्णिक
m.
(fr. वि-वर्ण) one who has lost or been expelled from his caste, an outcaste,
Divyāv.
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
vaivarṇika (nt.
abstract, cf. prec. and Skt. vaivarṇya
= Pali vevaṇṇiya, in °yam amhi ajjhūpagato AN 〔v.87.30〕 = 〔210.8〕, so read with CPD s.v. ajjhupagata
also Jāt. 〔iii.394.26〕, same mg.), loss of (normal) appearance, alteration (for the worse) of aspect: pravrajyā khalu vaivarṇikābhyupagatā Divy 〔424.1〕 (the mg. is that of Pali AN above, which pertains to a monk
Divy 〔Index〕 and PTSD wrongly outcaste).
Schmidt Nachtrage zum Sanskrit Worterbuch
German
°वैवर्णिक Adj. aus Vivarṇa (?)' Kauṭ. 78, 1.