Upadhivaraka, Upadhivāraka, Upadhi-varaka: 1 definition
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryUpadhivāraka (उपधिवारक).—(only Divyāvadāna 542.21), regularly °vārika, m. (from prec.; see upadhi 3), lit. guardian of material objects; beadle or provost of a monastery, in charge of physical properties: Mahāvyutpatti 9067 = Tibetan dge skos (Jäschke (Tibetan-English Dictionary) dge bskos, [Tibetan-English Dictionary] dge skyos or bskyos), lit. virtue (or welfare, or alms) commissioner; see Abhidharmakośa LaV-P. iv. 237 note 1; Divyāvadāna 50.27 upadhivārikasya; 81.27 (= Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya i.80.5) °kaḥ pṛṣṭaḥ; 237.16 (Dharmarucir) vihāre °ko vyavasthāpitaḥ; 237.24; 542.21 °vārakasya, but 543.17, repeating the sub- stance of 542.21, °vārikasya; Avadāna-śataka ii.87.2 tata upadhivārikeṇa gaṇḍīr ākoṭitā; he announced the day of the half-month to the monks, Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya iii.98.8—9. Acc. to [Tibetan-English Dictionary], this officer was ‘a supervisor or director of monks…a sort of provost- sergeant…who keeps strict order and punishes trans- gressors.’ This fits well the usual meaning of Tibetan dge ba (virtue).
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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