svaka
? svaka(m) ( cf. s.v. svayaṃ ), ( 1 ) acc. to Senart = Skt. svayam, (one)self , in Mv iii.126.9, 10 ; the crow-king Supātraʼs minister speaks: (if I cannot fulfil the kingʼs command, and steal food from the kitchen of the king of Benares) na puruṣakārakaṃ bhavati (here mss. punctuate) asmākaṃ, gacchāmi svakaṃ rājño Supātrasya nivedituṃ (so Senart , but mss. °trasya kāke, or kāka-, niveditaṃ), mahārāja atra svakaṃ (so Senart em. , mss. sekā) mahānasāto rājabhojanaṃ ānemi. The passage seems to me too uncertain to justify confidence in the em. (which might be explained as hyper- Skt. for svayaṃ, interpreted as having Pktic y for k, § 2.33 ). In the first line the orig. may have been svakaṃ … niveditaṃ (with mss. ); ( 2 ) in LV 237.16 ( vs ) Lefm. mahya saṃjñi svakam eva vartate, which might be rendered my own self (assuming svakam = ātmā) is having the idea (that you will become like the Highest of Men). But best mss. have saṃjñā for saṃjñi; meter will be satisfied by saṃjña, and we could interpret svaka-m-eva, with hiatus-bridging m; then, my very own notion is … In SP 112.8 ( vs ) read prob. with Nep. mss. pitā svakasya, his own father ; svakasya = Skt. svasya = ātmanaḥ.