pUrve
pūrve , and m.c. pūrvi , adv. (= Pali pubbe; in Skt. pūrvam), of old, in former time; first, beforehand : in prose of Mv , otherwise hardly found except in vss , but note pūrve SP 158.13 (prose, only Kashgar rec. and one Nep. ms. ); pūrve adattvā Mv ii.56.4 , not having first given ; Mv i.26.7 ; ii.98.14 (pūrve vā saṃnivāsena, either by dwelling together in a former birth … ); 121.1 (pūrve aśrutā caiva aśrutapūrvā ca, cf. parallels LV 246.9 aśrutapūrvā(ḥ), only, and Pali MN i.240.30 pubbe assutapubbā); 130.14 ; 192.19, 21 ; 337.13 ; 356.19 ; 469.10 (so with mss. ); iii.332.13, 15, 18 , and 333.2 (in some v.l. pūrvaṃ, once followed by Senart ), etc. ; the rest are only vss : RP 21.14 ; 23.8 ; Gv 230.13 ; LV 163.16 ; 164.1 ; 196.5 ; 215.15 ; 231.11 ; 331.6 ; 340.15 ; 376.6 ; 386.14 ; pūrvi , m.c. , LV 170.11 ; 365.13 ; cf. also the foll. cpds. , and see pūrvasyām, pūrvikāyām .