sPAlayati
sphālayati, °leti or (?) °lati , (= Pali phāleti, trans. and intrans. , see below; Skt. Gr. sphalati, intrans. , and in cpds. sphālay-as caus. - trans. ), bursts , intrans. (possibly also trans. ?): saptadhā mūrdhnaṃ ( n. sg. ) sphāleyā (so [Page613-b] mss. , Senart em. sphal°) Mv iii.114.12 (prose), the head would burst in seven pieces ; so in Pali , muddhā me sattadhā phāleyyā (one ms. phal°) Dhp. comm. i.17.20 ; sīsaṃ pi no sattadhā phāleyyā (no v.l. ) i.134.16 . In Av i.339.9 (prose) Speyer reads by em. (niyataṃ devasya saptadhā mūrdhānaṃ) sphālayāmi, I will cause to burst … ; but the mss. clearly point to a 3 sg. verb ( foll. by iti), which would have to be intrans. , implying that mūrdhānaṃ represents a n. sg. ( cf. §§ 17.37, 39 ); so Feer translates, la tête … se fendra … , without stating the reading of his ms. ; I suspect we should read sphāleyeti or sphālayatīti.