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अवचरक (avacaraka)

 
Spoken Sanskrit
English
अवचरक - avacaraka -
m.
- footman
अवचरक - avacaraka -
m.
- runner
Monier Williams Cologne
English
अव-चरक
m.
a footman, runner,
Divyāv.
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
avacaraka,
(1) m. (= Pali id.), messenger, (secret) agent: Mvy 〔3807〕 = Tib. bya ma rta, courier (v.l. apa°, but Mironov ava° without v.l.)
Divy 〔32.25〕
〔127.26〕
〔287.3〕
(2) (m.?) in Gv 〔522.1〕 tac ca gṛhaṃ avacarakaṃ vipulaṃ paśyet, and he would see (in his dream) that house or locality (? the preceding sentence is our only clue to the mg. and it is so general that it gives little help) as vast. Is it a ka-derivative of avacara (physical) domain? Or an otherwise unrecorded word for some kind of building? Ratnach. records AMg. ocāra (= avacāra), a granary or store-house of grain, which does not fit our context.
Schmidt Nachtrage zum Sanskrit Worterbuch
German
अवचरक Adj. Botendienste tuend, m. Bote, Kundschafter, Divyāv. 32, 25
127, 26.