sOBAzaRika
saubhāṣaṇika (and °ṣiṇika? see also saubhāṣika , [Page607-a] °sika ), adj. (to *su-bhāṣaṇa = Skt. subhāṣita plus -ika), functioning (or, that which functions) as fee for a noble (holy, religious) utterance : tena rājñā °ṣaṇikasyārthe suvarṇapiṭako … paryaṭito, na ca tat subhāṣitam upalabhyate Av i.219.2 , the king sent around a basket of gold for the purpose of getting a noble utterance ( Speyer , a sayer of beautiful religious sentences ), and that utterance was not found ; read °ṣiṇika, or better °ṣaṇika, as in Av , for °sinika in Divy 116.18 (the mg. is made clear by 115.10 ff. , yady api te, i.e. Supriya, subhāṣitasyārghamaṇiṃ prayaccheyus …, if they should give you a jewel as reward for a noble utterance … ); Supriya later ( 116.13 ) preaches to kiṃnarīs, who give him many jewels ( 17 ), and ( 18 ) dharmadeśanā-varjitāś caikaṃ saubhāsinikaṃ (so text, read as above) ratnam anuprayacchanti, being (previously) deprived of religious instruction, gave him a jewel as reward for his noble utterance ; so also in 117.15 , tā api dharmadeśanāvarjitās, tā eva viśiṣṭataraṃ saubhāsinikaṃ (so text, read as above) … ratnam anuprayacchanti; and so also 118.19 . See next.