eel
Amarā (?) a kind of slippery fish, an eel (?) Only in expression amarā-vikkhepika eel-wobbler, one who practices eel-wriggling, from °vikkhepa "oscillation like the a. fish". In English idiom "a man who sits on the fence" D I 24; M I 521; Paṭis I 155. The explanation given by Buddhaghosa at Sv I 115 is "amarā nāma maccha-jāti, sā ummujjana-nimmujjanādi vasena ... gahetuṃ na Sakkoti" etc. This meaning is not beyond doubt, but Kern's explanation Toev. 71 does not help to clear it up.
【陰】 鰻魚。~vikkhepa,【陽】 鰻之蠕動。
(fem, fem) eel eel