gopAnasI · feminine
Gopānasī (feminine) a beam supporting the framework of a roof, shaped A; figurative of old people, bent by age (see °vaṅka). Vin III 65, 81; S II 263; III 156; V 43, 228; M I 80; A I 261; III 364; V 21; Vism 320; Dhp-a II 190; Vv-a 188. -gaṇā (plural) a collection of beams, the rafters Vv 78 4 ; -bhogga (-sama) bent like a rafter (nārī) Ja III 395; -vaṅka (gopānasi°) as crooked as a rafter (of old people, cf. BHS gopānasī-vakra Avś II 25, note 5) S I 117; M I 88; A I 138.
gopānasī (once, in mss. , °sa; rare in Skt. , see BR 5, Addenda , and pw ; = Pali id. , essentially Buddhist word; cf. Skt. gopāna, °naka, Acharya, Dict. Hind. Arch. s.v. ), framework of a roof, rafters : Mvy 5580 ; gopānasī vigaḍita tatra sarvā SP 83.5 ( vs ; of a ruined house); (-sālāyāṃ … vivṛtāyāṃ) gopānasy-āntarikāś ca virājante LV 254.11 , the interstices of the roof-frame ; similarly 256.1 and °sīye antarāṇi, or °sī-antarāṇi, vivaṭāni Mv ii.125.14 ; 127.1 ; 128.7 ; 129.9 ; because of curvature, used as type of the bent-over posture of old men (so Pali °sī-vaṅka), kubjo °sī-vakro vibhagno LV 188.1 ; Kv 48.12 (text °ṇasī°, and wrongly divided in ed. ); in parallel passage, bhagno °sī-vakro Mv ii.150.19 ; kubja-gopānasī-vaṅkā Mv iii.283.11 ; kubja-gopānasī- ( ms. °sa, em. Speyer )-vakrā Av ii.25.8 .
a rafter; a curved roof beam
【陰】 重詹，支撐屋頂結構的彎梁。~vaṅka,【形】 像 gopānasī 一樣的彎曲。
(fem, fem) beam; rafter; wooden framework of a thatch roof bent beam supporting the framework of a roof