upozaDa
upoṣadha , ( 1 ) nt. (but see under poṣadha, posatha ; = Pali (u)posatha, m. ; Jain Skt. pauṣadha, m. ; AMg. posaha, m. and nt. ; except a single case of posatha, q.v. , BHS seems to have only forms ending in -dha, whereas Pali has only -tha; see prec. and foll. items), the Buddhist ‘sabbath’ , four times a month, on which good laymen observed 8 śīla (see aṣṭāṅga ), confessed, etc. : Mvy 7137 °dham, n. sg. ; Mv i.255.13 °dhe; ii.177.20 (see upoṣati ); iii.97.20 and 98.2 ( vss ), mss. poṣadhaṃ ( acc. ), Senart em. upo° m.c. ; Divy 116.22 upoṣadhoṣitaḥ, but 116.21 poṣadhe and 118.27 poṣadhoṣitaḥ (all prose); ( 2 ) m. , n. of a (cakravartin) king of old, grandson of Kalyāṇa, father of Māndhātar (= Pali Uposatha): Mvy 3556 ; Mv i.348.8 ; Divy 210.13 ff. ; MSV i.66.7 ff. ; 92.16 ; ( 3 ) m. , n. of a devaputra who visited Buddha: Av i.336.1 ff.