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श्वेतास्थि (zvetAsthi)

 
Spoken Sanskrit
English
श्वेतास्थि zvetAsthi
n.
particular kind of famine
Monier Williams Cologne
English
श्वेतास्थि
n.
a partic. kind of famine,
Divyāv.
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
śvetāsthi, nt., with durbhikṣa, lit. white-bone, a kind of famine: Divy 〔131.21〕 (see s.v. cañcu)
〔24—132.3〕 śve° nāma durbhikṣaṃ tasmin kāle manuṣyā asthīny upasaṃhṛtya tāvat kvāthayanti yāvat tāny asthīni śvetāni saṃvṛttānīti tatas tat kvāthaṃ pivanti
idaṃ śvetāsthi durbhikṣam ity ucyate
similarly MSV 〔i.250.13〕.
Schmidt Nachtrage zum Sanskrit Worterbuch
German
श्वेतास्थि n. eine best. Art von Hungersnot, Divyāvad. 131, 21
132, 3.