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बुसप्लावी (busaplAvI)

 
Spoken Sanskrit
English
बुसप्लावी - busaplAvI -
f.
- beetle
बुसप्लावी busaplAvI
f.
beetle
Monier Williams Cologne
English
बुस—प्लावी
f.
a beetle (?),
Divyāv.
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
? busaplāvī, acc. sg. °vīm, something disagreeable (hard, or foul, offensive) to eat
parallel with ayoguḍa, svamāṃsa, pūyaśoṇita: Divy 〔12.25〕
〔13.17〕
all things which niggards wished a mendicant should eat, and which later they were therefore obliged to eat themselves. The Index renders beetle (?)
I do not know why. The first member seems to be Skt. busa, chaff, refuse, rubbish
perh. the ed. of Divy understood the latter part as leaping (in chaff of grain
even this need not lead to the mg. beetle). Same passage MSV 〔iv.176.7〕
〔177.11〕
Tib. cited as phub ma, chaff (= busa), for the entire word.