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ह्रासि (hrAsi)

 
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
? hrāsi (for hrāse, loc. of hrāsa, diminution?), is obscure to me
occurs five times in a series of śloka vss (in many of which both meter and sense are bad, as the text is printed) in Mmk, evidently dealing with astronomical portents: tato hrāsi madhyāhne (submetrical! as 4th syllable from end, -i could be m.c. for -e) aparāhne divākare Mmk 〔276.6〕
tamo (read tato with all the rest ? or contrariwise, should they all be emended to tamo for tato ?) hrāsi-gate bhānoḥ kṣmākampo yadi jāyate ib. 〔11〕
tato hrāsi yāme vai (submetrical) calite vasumatī tadā (! hypermetric) 〔277.1〕
tato hrāsi yāmānte (submetrical) dṛśyate karma dāruṇam 〔3〕
tato hrāsi-madhye tu (submetrical) ante yāme prajāyate 〔17〕.