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धनुष्कारिक (dhanuSkArika)

 
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
dhanuṣkārika or °kā, a kind of flowering tree: (puṣpavṛkṣāṇāṃ …) sumanā-vārṣikā-dhanuṣkārikādīnāṃ Divy 〔628.15〕 (prose). Obviously = the commoner dhānuṣkārin or °rika, °rikā (°rīka), q.v. But in Pali recorded only with dhan°: dhanukārika (in a cpd.) Jāt. 〔v.420.7〕, which (tho prose) is glossed in the comm. 〔422.28〕, which replaces this word with dhanukārī(ti), glossing it with dhanupātaḷi (otherwise unknown).