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चापोदर (cApodara)

 
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
cāpodara, having a belly (slender) like a bow, one of the anuvyañjana, replacing kṣāmodara (〔No. 36〕) in LV 〔107.4〕, and by Senartʼs em. in Mv 〔ii.44.3〕 (see kṣāmodara). Tib. renders LV rked pa gzhu-ḥi ḥchaṅ bzuṅ ltar phra ba, which, if I understand it correctly, seems to mean with waist slender like the handle (?) of a bow
at least the words gzhu, bow, and phra, slender, seem clear, and suggest that Tib. rendered both cāpa and kṣāma
in another context Mvy 〔5207〕 has cāpodarī, fem., rendered rked pa gzhu-ḥi chaṅ gzuṅs, waist (like) handle (?) of bow, or bzuṅ ltar phra ba, slender like handle (?)
Chin. waist like handle of bow.
Schmidt Nachtrage zum Sanskrit Worterbuch
German
*चापोदर Adj. (f. ई) einen gewölbten Bauch habend, Mahāvy. 223, 133 (°दनी gedr.).