sTera
sthera (= sthavira , cf. thera ; Pali thera), old; an elder : sthero na tāvatā bhavati (pronounce bhoti) Ud xi.11 (required by meter; later v.l. sthaviro, unmetr); sthero ti ucyate xi.12 (later v.l. sthavira ucyate, where meter is preserved by omitting the MIndic ti = iti). The first of these corresp. to Pali Dhp. 260 na tena thero hoti, where meter requires either thaviro, or with vv.ll. bhavati, or so hoti.