| YouTube Channel

उच्छद (ucchada)

 
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
ucchada-,
(1) (= Pali ussada
= ucchādana, q.v.), shampooing, rubbing down: KP 〔152.2〕 ucchada-snapanaparimardana-bhedana-vikiraṇa-vidhvaṃsana-dharmaḥ (of the body)
(2) in Śikṣ 〔208.11〕 -sāntarocchada-paṭikobhayakṛtopadhāneṣu paryaṅkeṣu śayitvā
Bendall and Rouse app. understand ucchada as some kind of cloth (cf. ucchadaka)
but the preceding sāntara, which certainly goes closely with what follows it, is hard to interpret on that theory, and suggests em. to sāntarottara (q.v.), a cpd. known to Pali
it might mean here having cushions made on both sides with woolen cloths inside and outside
(3) in Av 〔i.354.10〕 Speyerʼs em. is certainly wrong. The ms. is quoted as prāptaucchadakāyaś ca
certainly ucchada = utsada (1), Pali ussada, elevation on the 7 parts of the body which show this feature in a mahāpuruṣa
Tib. mtho ba confirms this. Acc. to Speyer, Tib. has mdun, fore-part, before that word
but surely Tib. read, or intended, bdun, seven, and we must read sapto- for prāptau-
the cpd. means with a body possessing the 7 high places or protuberances (see under utsada (1), and cf. Bbh 〔375.20〕 saptotsadakāyaḥ). —Add to
(2): my suggestion on Śikṣ 〔208.11〕 is made dubious by sottarocchadapaṭa (ms.
ed. em. sottaracch°), adj., MPS 〔34.68〕 and 69.