hastinAga
hastināga , m. (= Pali hatthi°, see PTSD s.v. nāga, [Page619-a] and Andersenʼs Reader, Glossary , an excellent elephant ), acc. to pw (citing Divy ) ein fürstlicher Elephant ; this fits some BHS passages well enough, and may be meant in Pali Vv. comm. 37.8 hatthināga as gloss on nāga of text (this elephant was indeed a fine one); but it is not always clear that it means more than (any) elephant (they are all noble beasts); one suspects sometimes that hasti- may be prefixed to distinguish this from nāga, serpent : Mv ii.70.7 ; 74.12 ff. ; Divy 74.2 ff. ; 286.28 f. ; 334.15 (read with mss. ); 370.26 . (In late Skt. Hastināgapura occurs as n. of a city, Schmidt, Nachträge ; and acc. to Sheth , Pkt. Hatthiṇāgapura, or the like, = Hastināpura.)