ekatya , pronom. adj. (= Pali ekacca, Aśokan ekatiya, cf. Senartʼs note Mv i.388 f. ; nom. pl. once ekatye, KP 128.2 , = Pali ekacce, but otherwise only nominal inflection), ( 1 ) sing. some one, anyone , in general and often hypothetical statements: Mv iii.213.2 yadaikatyo … pravraje(t), and id. 8, 12 yad ihaikatyo …; Śikṣ 76.7 [Page153-a] iha … ekatyo brahmacāriṇam ātmānaṃ pratijānīte; Karmav 44.1 ihaikatyaḥ paripṛcchakajātīyo bhavati; KP 122.2 ihekatya (read ihaikatyaḥ) śramaṇa(ḥ) …; Bbh 46.22—23 varam ihaikatyasya pudgaladṛṣṭir na tv evaikatyasya durgṛhītā śūnyateti; 297.11 (tad yathā,) ekatyaḥ anuttarāyāṃ samyaksaṃbodhau cittam utpādayati, and so 12, 14; Mvy 6733 ekatyaḥ = Tib. khaṅ (read kha ?) cig , or la la , defined some, several, a few ; 7096 apy ekatyaḥ, see below; ( 2 ) a certain, an (unnamed) one : Karmav 26.19 ( vs ) dṛṣṭvaiva ekatyam iha pudgalam (his name has actually been given in the prose story); ( 3 ) any (one), any at all , substantially = each and every (similarly under pl. , below): in a cliché, pañcāveṇikā ( 98.22 and 440.16 °ṇīyā) dharmā ekatye ( 98.22 ihaikatye) paṇḍitajātīye mātṛgrāme, there are five peculiar characteristics in any (= every) intelligent woman , Divy 2.3 ; 98.22 ; 440.16—17 ; Av i.14.7 etc. ; ekatye niṣadya MSV ii.196.2 , sitting in any place at all ; ( 4 ) pl. ekatyā(ḥ), once ekatye, some : Mvy 2289 manuṣyā ekatyāś ca devāḥ ( Tib. cig , or kha gcig ); KP 128.2 ihekatye (read ihai°; nom. pl. ; cited Śikṣ 196.12 ihaike) śramaṇabrāhmaṇo (read °ṇā with Śikṣ ) bahūn dharmān paryāpnuvanti …; Divy 327.16, 18 (correlative with eke, kāścit, … apare); Bbh 46.8, 63.8, 10 ; ( 5 ) some (only), some few : Mv iii.131.17 ekatyeṣu manuṣyeṣu caite (keep, with mss. ; Senart em. naite) guṇā sulabharūpā ye imasya gajapotasya, and in (only) some few men are these virtues easily got, which … ; ( 6 ) any , substantially = each and every, any and all (as in sg. , above): SP 71.11 and 133.2 upamayaikatyā vijñapuruṣā bhāṣitasyārtham ājānanti, by a comparison (parable) in this world any intelligent men come to know the meaning of what is said ; Mv iii.453.13 ( vs ) upamāye ihaikatyā arthaṃ jānanti paṇḍitā; ( 7 ) apy ekatyā(ḥ) … apy ekatyā(ḥ) (= Pali app-ekacca, mostly pl. ), some … others : Mv i.23.9—11 ; iii.223.8—10 ; 443.18 ff. ; Divy 618.28 ff. ; sg. only in isolated citation Mvy 7096 apy ekatyaḥ = Tib. ḥon kyaṅ (= api) kha cig ( some, several ) ni ; ( 8 ) tadekatyāḥ, pl. some : Bbh 98.9 °tyānāṃ śramaṇabrāhmaṇānām; 151.21 ; like apy ek°, correl. with another tadekatyāḥ, some … others , Bbh 125.17, 19 ; 296.22 ff. ; 403.21 f. (ekāntena samyak pratipadyate sarvam eva, iyam ekā parṣat; ekāntena mithyā pratipadyate sarvam eva, iyaṃ dvitīyā parṣat;) tṛtīyā punaḥ parṣad yasyāṃ tadekatyāḥ samyak pratipadyante, tadekatyā mithyā pratipadyante; ( 9 ) see next.