saMkAra
saṃkāra , m. (= Skt. Lex. and Pali id. ; note Skt. Lex. saṃkara, id. , but in Caraka dung ), ( 1 ) primarily, dust, sweepings, refuse, rubbish : Mvy 9313 = Tib. phyag dar ; tayā dārikayā gṛhaṃ saṃmṛjya … °raḥ choritaḥ Divy 585.4 ; °ra-kūṭa ( Pali id. ), rubbish heap (see 2 below), Divy 177.10 (tair hastapādeṣu gṛhītvā °kūṭe kṣipto), 11; [Page545-b] saṃkārāvakare śukle (read so, or °kara-śukle, for text śaṃkārāpakare śuklaṃ) paṭe … Mmk 131.21 ( vs ), on a cloth pure in regard to sweepings and rubbish ( i.e. free from them); lumbinivanaṃ … vyapagatatṛṇa-reṇu-(read khāṇu-? see next)-pattra-saṃkāraṃ Mv i.149.3 ( vs ); padminivanaṃ … (read)apagata-tṛṇa-khāṇu-pattra-saṃkāraṃ i.215.14 (so mss. , except khāṇḍa for khāṇu , q.v. ), and read so ii.18.10 lumbinivanaṃ … ( mss. °saṃkara, and again khāṇḍa for khāṇu); Senart em. saṃskāraṃ and saṃkhāraṃ, respectively, for saṃkāraṃ in the last two; ( 2 ) seems to mean more specifically dung , perh. in °ra-kūṭa ( cf. 1 above), dung-heap, privy(?) : so 'medhyasthāneṣv evābhiramate saṃkārakūṭe jambāle ( mss. jā°) keśāṃl luñcati amedhyaṃ mukhe prakṣipati Av i.280.5 (? but jambāla simply mud , so perh. saṃkāra-k° rubbish-heap ); and more especially in SP 105.12 ff., 109.2, 113.13 and 114.4 (but Tib. renders phyag dar thru out), where saṃkāra-dhāna ( Pali id. ) seems to mean privy : °naṃ śodhayitavyaṃ 105.12 ; similarly 106.1, 3 ; dharmān pratyavarān °dhānasadṛśān 109.2 ; °dhānam imu mahya pūtikam uccāraprasrāva-vināśitaṃ ca 113.13 ( vs ), especially clear, stinking, foul with dung and urine ; 114.4 ( vs ); ( 3 ) perh. impurity in the sense of pariahhood, outcaste state, expulsion from caste : (vayaṃ tvāṃ) jñātimadhyād utkṣipāmaḥ, saṃkāraṃ pātayāmo Divy 273.2, 11 ; but mss. are not unanimous, and in same phrase 272.24 it is alleged that they read salokānāṃ (! kept in text) for saṃkāraṃ; quite uncertain. Cf. saṃkirati .