navakarmika (= Pali °kammika, said to mean repairer of buildings , but see below): Mvy 8735 °kaḥ = Tib. lag gi bla , which Das defines as one who does general menial service to the congregation of lamas in a monastery ; MSV i.235.6, 9 ; ii.145.13 ; he was as a rule himself a monk, but inferior in position and function, as shown by Jm 113.22 ( vs ) āvāsikaḥ so 'stu mahāvihāre kacaṅgalāyāṃ navakarmikaś ca (as a punishment). That the navakammika in Pali , too, was low in station among monks is shown by the story of Sudhamma, Vin. ii.15.30 ff. (āvāsiko … navakammiko dhuvabhattiko), and navakamme in Jāt. iv.378.29 seems to mean manual labor (certainly not repairing , since a new structure was being built). I have found no Pali comm. ʼs interpretation, but the Pali word seems to need reexamination. Perhaps lit. (one who performs) new-initiateʼs work (see nava ).