upaDivAraka
upadhi-vāraka (only Divy 542.21 ), regularly °vārika , m. (from prec. ; see upadhi 3), lit. guardian of material objects; beadle or provost of a monastery, in charge of physical properties: Mvy 9067 = Tib. dge skos ( Jä. dge bskos , Das dge skyos or bskyos ), lit. virtue (or welfare , or alms ) commissioner ; see AbhidhK. LaV-P. iv.237 note 1 ; Divy 50.27 upadhivārikasya; 81.27 (= MSV i.80.5 ) °kaḥ pṛṣṭaḥ; 237.16 (Dharmarucir) vihāre °ko vyavasthāpitaḥ; 237.24 ; 542.21 °vārakasya, but 543.17 , repeating the substance of 542.21 , °vārikasya; Av ii.87.2 tata upadhivārikeṇa gaṇḍīr ākoṭitā; he announced the day of the half-month to the monks, MSV iii.98.8—9 . Acc. to Das , this officer was ‘a supervisor or director of monks … a sort of provost-sergeant … who keeps strict order and punishes transgressors.’ This fits well the usual mg. of Tib. dge ba ( virtue ).