? prativrata , f. °ā , adj. , true to vows (of chastity): °tānāṃ Mv iii.151.5, 7 , applied to female ascetics (tāpasīnāṃ 5); v.l. both times pati°, which could not apply here in its normal mg. true to oneʼs husband (so also Pali patibbatā); AMg. paivvayā is glossed prativratā, and rendered thus in both Guj. and Hindi , yet the Skt. gloss is patiṃ vratayati ( Ratnach. ); for Skt. prati AMg. usually has paḍi, rarely pai. For Mvy 7261 pativratā a v.l. prati° is recorded; but there is no such v.l. in Mironov , and Tib. says clearly not unfaithful to her husband . Possibly MIndic forms of Skt. pativratā came to mean simply chaste , and then [Page369-b] became applicable even to female ascetics; the form prati° might then be an unhistorical hyper- Sktism .