Alternative spellings of this word include Gocharika.

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

Gocarika (गोचरिक).—(-gocarika), adj., (1) providing sustenance (see s.v. gocara, 3) for… (monks): (tatraiko) baṇig bhikṣugoca- rikaḥ Divyāvadāna 307.21; (2) (= Pali gocariya, see below), ? an epithet of wool, some of which is to be used in making coverlets for monks, [Prātimokṣasūtra des Sarvāstivādins] 496.10, 12; they are to be made of two parts ‘pure black’ (śuddha-kāḍānāṃ) wool, one part white (avadātānāṃ), and the fourth part gocarikā- nāṃ (gen. pl.), which according to Finot is rendered in Chin. by (wool) of inferior quality. In the close Pali parallel Vin. iii.226.25 ff. (ignored in [Pali Text Society’s Pali-English Dictionary]; Childers records it from Minayeff's Prātimokṣa S.) the corresponding epithet, gocariya, is said by the commentary 684.21 to mean tawny (kapilavaṇṇānaṃ); this is adopted by Childers; also translation(s) [Sacred Books of the East] 13.25 ‘of the colour of oxen (reddish brown)’, or (below) ‘tawny’; it seems like a dubious guess.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Gocarika (गोचरिक):—[=go-carika] [from go] mfn. ‘accessible to’, a friend of (in [compound]), [Divyāvadāna]

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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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Partial matches: Carika, Go.

Full-text: Gocara.

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