utkUla
utkūla , adj. , high, rising ; only with nikūla, low , [Page121-b] descending , and usually in cpd. utkūla-nikūla ( cf. Pali ukkūla-vikūla, interpreted as high and low , AN comm. ii.35.21 ), high and low , hence uneven : Mvy 2708 °lam, and 2709 nikūlam (the Tib. definitions, śaṅ ṅam śoṅ 2708 , ḥbar ḥbur ram mtho dman 2709 , seem to refer confusedly to the pair of words together, and mean uneven, high-and-low ); LV 77.17 utkūlanikūlāś ca pṛthivīpradeśāḥ samāḥ samavasthitāḥ, and the high-and-low (uneven) places became even ; 272.17 utkūla-nikūla-sama-karacaraṇa-gatiḥ (of the Bodhisattvaʼs gait), … making even places that were uneven ; MSV i.14.19 (as an ādīnava). The cpd. utkūla-nikūla occurs VS 30.14 , where it is unexplained in comm. and not definable by context; utkūla occurs once or twice besides; nikūla is hardly recorded otherwise, and seems to be unknown in MIndic ( Pali has vikūla instead, above).