nagarAvalambaka
nagarāvalambaka , m. , and °ikā , f. , seemingly city-washerman and -woman : m. only Śikṣ 9.4 tṛṇapradīpaṃ dattvā nagarāvalambaka-bhūtena ( Bendall and Rouse , ignoring the fem. counterpart, inhabitant of the outskirts of the town , without evident justification); f. °ikā Mv iii.311.8, 18 ; 312.12 (no v.l. ), apparently a woman whose job it was to hang out clothes (to dry?), cf. 311.11 pāṃsukūlaṃ (which she has just presented to the Bodhisattva) vṛkṣaśākhāye olambitvā; the gerund seems to suggest her occupation. Senart Introd. p. xxix , étendeuse de linge (which is surely far better than his suggestion, note p. 505 , that velambikā be read by em. ; this is clearly impossible, see s.v. velambaka ); Divy 82.11, 28 ; 84.24 ; 89.20, 26 = MSV i.80.16 ff. (in these passages no light seems to be thrown on the meaning by the context).