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duṣṭhula , adj. (also spelled °ṣṭū° ; = Pali duṭṭhulla, adj. and n. ; cf. dauṣṭhulya ; on etym see below), wicked, grievously evil : °lām āpattim Prāt 504.1 ( Chin. une faute grave ); MSV iii.79.5 (see atisārin ), duṣṭūlāpattiḥ, a-duṣṭu° Hoernle, MR 12.5 (in a Vinaya fragment), rendered grave offense, not … ; in Mvy 8424 °lārocana, 8473 °la-praticchādana, [Page268-a] Mironov °lāprati°, telling and (not) concealing what is wicked (no neg. in Tib. and Chin. ), the word could (but need not) be considered equal to dauṣṭhulya; °lasamudācārāḥ, of wicked behavior , MSV ii.200.17 (of the ṣaḍvargika monks). In Prāt 479.12 duṣṭhulayā vācā ( cf. Pali Vin. iii.128.22 ) could be rendered with lewd words (making sexual advances to a woman), which acc. to Childers and PTSD is a special ( tho not the exclusive) mg. of Pali duṭṭhulla; since no other BHS occurrence of this word or dauṣṭhulya suggests this mg. , it seems more probable that the standard meaning, gravely evil , prevails here too. Derivation from Skt. Gr. duṣṭhu (pendant to Skt. suṣṭhu) has been plausibly suggested by Lévi, Sūtrāl. vi.2 note 3, and others. Prob. Pali -ulla shows the older form of the ending: on the Pkt. suffix -ulla cf. Pischel 595 . Probably dauṣṭhulya was first constructed as a hyper- Skt. form from duṭṭhulla; it was restricted to substantive use, and duṣṭhula (which seems to have been much rarer) was a back-formation from it, as adj. Leumann , cited by Wogihara, Lex. 27 f. , came fairly close to this suggestion as an alternative (his first proposal seems to me implausible).