feminine
beauty
beauty
Pokkharatā (feminine) [is it from pokkhara lotus (cf. Sanskrit pauṣkara), thus "lotus-ness," or founded on Vedic puṣpa blossom? The BHS puṣkalatā (Avś II 201) is certainly a misconstruction if it is constructed from the Pāli] splendidness, "flower-likeness," only in compound vaṇṇa-pokkharatā beauty of complexion D I 114; Vin I 268; S I 95; II 279; A I 38, 86; II 203; III 90; Sv I 282; Pj I 179; Vv-a 14; Pv-a 46. The BHS passage at Avś II 202 reads "śobhāṃ varṇaṃ puṣkalatāṃ ca."
(fem, fem, abstr) beauty