upasTAyaka
upasthāyaka , m. , f. °ikā ; rarely ( Divy 426.27 ; MSV i.30.10 ; 90.7 ) m. °ika (once also upasthāka , q.v. ; Skt. seems to have m. °ika very rarely, see pw , but no °aka; Pali only upaṭṭhāka recorded), servant, attendant : SP 95.9 ( vs ) °kā nitya parasya; 215.6 bhagavataś caite putrā bhagavataś copasthāyakā(ḥ); 245.1 te buddhā bhagavanta upasthāyakadvitīyā upasthāyakatṛtīyā(ḥ); 293.4 ; LV 91.17 ( vs ) upasthāyikās ( f. ) te vayaṃ, and 19; 421.18 ( vs ), read, teṣa munina ye ( ed. muninaye) upasthāyakāḥ; Mv i.249.1 °yako; 251.22 Ānando … upasthāyako ( sc. of Śākyamuni) bhaviṣyati; 322.18 teṣāṃ (of aged parents) nāsty anyo upasthāyako, and similarly ii.214.5 ; i.326.5 ff. °yako, attendant of a Buddha (like Ānanda, above); f. °yikā ii.433.14 ; °yikāye (so read with v.l. for °yakāye) 467.3 ; (chandako … bhagavato kumārabhūtasya) upasthāyako iii.91.8 ; vaidyabhaiṣajyopasthāyaka- … pratyayasaṃpadam Gv 328.8 ; upasthāyaka Divy 35.25 ; 50.27 (glānopa°); 90.13 (buddhānāṃ); 612.2 (Ānando nāma śramaṇagautamasya); in 426.27 upasthāyikāś, n. pl. m. , all mss. , while in 29 below all have vaidyopasthāyakāś ca visarjitāḥ, of the same persons.