tirya , adj. and subst. (= Skt. tiryañc, tiryak, § 15.3 , cf. Pali tiriyaṃ, adv. , and AMg. tiri, tiriya, adj. and subst. animal ; spelling tiriya not recorded in BHS but metrically demanded in Mmk 107.27, 28 ), ( 1 ) adj. oblique, transverse : ākāśagamanaṃ cāpi tiryaṃ cāpi nabhastale Mmk 148.20 ( vs ; perhaps adv. , or adj. with -gamanam understood); ( 2 ) subst. , animal (sub-human): tiryāṇa ( gen. pl. ; separate word) yonīṣu ca so sadā ramī SP 97.2 ( vs ); tiryāṇa yonīṣu 358.13 ( vs ); tiryā, n. pl. , LV 336.3 ( vs ); meter seems to demand tiriya, contrary to text, in tiryebhyo dadau vratī Mmk 107.27 and °bhyo tu dattvā vai 28 ( vss ). Also for the Skt. cpds. tiryag-gata and °gati, tirya- occurs m.c. , Samādh 19.17 ; Suv 48.1 ; RP 27.10 (text here tīr°); 32.8 . The stem tirya has been recorded only in verses. [Page254-a] The AMg. form tiri, with ‘saṃprasāraṇa’, suggests the origin of the penultimate i of tiriccha, °cchāna .