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सौभाषणिक (saubhASaNika)

 
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saubhāṣaṇika (and °ṣiṇika? see also saubhāṣika, [Page607-a] °sika), adj. (to *su-bhāṣaṇa = Skt. subhāṣita plus -ika), functioning (or, that which functions) as fee for a noble (holy, religious) utterance: tena rājñā °ṣaṇikasyārthe suvarṇapiṭako paryaṭito, na ca tat subhāṣitam upalabhyate Av 〔i.219.2〕, the king sent around a basket of gold for the purpose of getting a noble utterance (Speyer, a sayer of beautiful religious sentences), and that utterance was not found
read °ṣiṇika, or better °ṣaṇika, as in Av, for °sinika in Divy 〔116.18〕 (the mg. is made clear by 〔115.10 ff.〕, yady api te, i.e. Supriya, subhāṣitasyārghamaṇiṃ prayaccheyus …, if they should give you a jewel as reward for a noble utterance …)
Supriya later (〔116.13〕) preaches to kiṃnarīs, who give him many jewels (〔17〕), and (〔18〕) dharmadeśanā-varjitāś caikaṃ saubhāsinikaṃ (so text, read as above) ratnam anuprayacchanti, being (previously) deprived of religious instruction, gave him a jewel as reward for his noble utterance
so also in 〔117.15〕, api dharmadeśanāvarjitās, eva viśiṣṭataraṃ saubhāsinikaṃ (so text, read as above) ratnam anuprayacchanti
and so also 〔118.19〕. See next.