ASItakI
āśītakī , or ās° , also written aśītaka, aśīta, aśitaka, asita , the a-stems being prob. m. ( Mv ii.231.13 ); the Pali equivalent is āsītika, m. (not °kā, f. , as stated in PTSD ), n. of some plant; occurs, regularly in comp. with -parvāṇi (as in Pali with -pabbāni, MN i.80.11 = 245.27 ), in the account of the Bodhisattvaʼs emaciated state after his long fast, his members being compared to the joints of this plant. The reading asita(ka) is prob. due to popular etymology, association with asita black ; kāla , q.v. , occurs in the context, and note kālāśītako (perhaps read °ke with v.l. ) Mv ii.231.13 . Other cases, all in comp. with parvāṇi: LV 254.7 āsītakī-; 255.21 āśītakī- (all mss. ; Lefm. inexplicably reads āsitakī- here!); Mv ii.126.18 aśītaka- ( v.l. asita-); in 125.12 Senart omits the word with one ms. , but the other ms. has aśita-parvāṇi; 128.5 aśitaka- (one ms. , the other omits, Senart em. aśītaka-); 129.7 aśīta- ( v.l. asita-). The evidence points, on the whole, to āśītaka- or °kī- as the original form.