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

Okkarika (ओक्करिक).—m. (= aukarika, q.v.; according to Feer, Transl. of Avadāna-śataka, = Tibetan yul tsoṅ [read tshoṅ] pa, see below), some kind of tradesman; Feer, ‘country merchant’; but yul, which indeed often means janapada (opp. to town), in composition with tshoṅ pa, merchant, could possibly mean dealer in agricultural products, something like truck-farmer; possibly compare ogara, oggara, cited by [Paia-sadda-mahaṇṇavo] from Prākṛta- piṅgala as meaning a king of grain or rice. Certainly not a keeper of a shop in the country, for the story shows that it means a member of an urban tradesman's guild, parallel with perfumers: Avadāna-śataka i.198.7 pitā te okkarika āsīd; 10 [Page158-1b+ 43] tenaukkarikāpaṇo vyavasthāpitaḥ; 12 tenaukkarika-tvaṃ tyaktvā. The story is the same as that in which Divyāvadāna uses aukarika. I see no reason to associate with either of these words the n. pr. (proper name) Utkarika or Otk°, qq.v.

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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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