The Sanskrit term Duṣṭhula can be transliterated into English as Dusthula or Dushthula, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Duṣṭhula (दुष्ठुल).—adj. (also spelled °ṣṭū°; = Pali duṭṭhulla, adj. and n.; compare dauṣṭhulya; on etym see below), wicked, grievously evil: °lām āpattim [Prātimokṣasūtra des Sarvāstivādins] 504.1 (Chin. une faute grave); Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya iii.79.5 (see atisārin), duṣṭūlāpattiḥ, a-duṣṭu° Hoernle, [Manuscript Remains of Buddhist literature found in Eastern Turkestan] 12.5 (in a Vinaya fragment), rendered grave offense, not…; in Mahāvyutpatti 8424 °lārocana, 8473 °la-prati- [Page268-a+ 71] cchādana, Mironov °lāprati°, telling and (not) concealing what is wicked (no neg. in Tibetan and Chin.), the word could (but need not) be considered equal to dauṣṭhulya; °la- samudācārāḥ, of wicked behavior, Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya ii.200.17 (of the ṣaḍvargika monks). In [Prātimokṣasūtra des Sarvāstivādins] 479.12 duṣṭhulayā vācā (compare Pali Vin. iii.128.22) could be rendered with lewd words (making sexual advances to a woman), which according to Childers and [Pali Text Society’s Pali-English Dictionary] is a special (tho not the exclusive) meaning of Pali duṭṭhulla; since no other [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] occurrence of this word or dauṣṭhulya suggests this meaning, it seems more probable that the standard meaning, gravely evil, prevails here too. Derivation from Sanskrit Gr. duṣṭhu (pendant to Sanskrit suṣṭhu) has been plausibly suggested by Lévi, Asaṅga (Mahāyāna-sūtrālaṃkāra) vi.2 note 3, and others. Prob. Pali -ulla shows the older form of the ending: on the Prakrit suffix -ulla compare Pischel 595. Probably dauṣṭhulya was first constructed as a hyper- Sanskrit form from duṭṭhulla; it was restricted to substantive use, and duṣṭhula (which seems to have been much rarer) was a back-formation from it, as adj. Leumann, cited by Wogihara, Lex. 27 f., came fairly close to this suggestion as an alternative (his first proposal seems to me implau- sible).

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Full-text: Maithunabhashana, Daushthulya, Pratichadana.

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