Busaplavi, Busaplāvī: 2 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryBusaplāvī (बुसप्लावी).—(?) , acc. sg. °vīm, something disagreeable (hard, or foul, offensive) to eat; parallel with ayoguḍa, svamāṃsa, pūyaśoṇita: Divyāvadāna 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 Sanskrit busa, chaff, refuse, rubbish; perhaps the ed. of Divyāvadāna understood the latter part as leaping (in chaff of grain; even this need not lead to the meaning beetle). Same passage Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya iv.176.7; 177.11; Tibetan cited as phub ma, chaff (= busa), for the entire word.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryBusaplāvī (बुसप्लावी):—[=busa-plāvī] [from busa > bus] f. a beetle (?), [Divyāvadāna]
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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