kaSambakajAta
kaśambaka-jāta (also written kaṣ°, kas°; = Pali kasambu-jāta, with var. kasambuka-j°), acc. to Tib. on Mvy , rotten ; this is consistent with the lit. mg. in Pali , applied to a tree the inside of which is rotten, see s.v. avasruta ; the orig. mg. was forgotten in Pali at an early time, as the vague and inconsistent Pali comms. show; e.g. Vin. ii.236.26 , comm. 1287.5 = ākiṇṇadosataya saṃkiliṭṭhajātaṃ; Pugg.p. 27.10 , comm. 207.25 either kasambu = kacavara, rubbish , or = tinta-kuṇapa-gataṃ kasaṭa-udakaṃ (evidently guessing): Mvy 9139 kaṣ° (but Mironov kaś°) = Tib. śiṅ rul ba ( rotten ) lta bur gyur pa ; [Page174-b] follows antarpūty avasrutaḥ (all part of a longer cliché found repeatedly in Pali , e.g. in Vin. and Pugg.p. , ll.cc. ); MSV i.50.7 kaṣ°; Śikṣ 67.20 kaśambakajāto aśramaṇaḥ etc. (as in Mvy 9143—4 ); AsP 181.20 kas°. Could this word be related to kasavva Deśīn. 2.53 , said to have four mgs. , (1) stokam, (2) ārdram, wet , (3) pracuraṃ, (4) bāṣpaḥ? By the ‘law of morae’ kasamba could be related to Deśī kasavva.