vAlikA · feminine
sand
1 vālikā , once written bāl° ( Skt. Lex. and Pali id. ; = Skt. , also Pali and BHS , vālukā), sand : mss. often vary between °ikā and °ukā, e.g. SP 253.3 (text with Kashgar rec. °ikā, Nep. mss. °ukā); yatha gaṅga-vālikāḥ SP 10.9 ; 96.9 ; yathā gaṅgāya vālikāḥ 255.4 ; 303.10 (these all vss ); gaṅgā yathā vālikāḥ LV 283.20 ( vs ); 284.1 ( vs ); 360.19 ( vs ); tvatsaṃnibhair vālika-gaṅga-tulyaiḥ 310.14 ( vs ), by such as you, like the Ganges as to sand (= very numerous); the sands of the Ganges are proverbially used for vast numbers, very often, e.g. LV 311.8 ; 314.17 ; 376.5 ; Sukh 8.11 ; Śikṣ 16.3 (prose; in next line, same cpd. with vālukā); ṣaṭtriṃśad-gaṅgānadī-vālikā-samānāṃ Gv 125.1 (prose); other phrases, vālikā-nagara , q.v. ; suvarṇa-vālikāsaṃstṛto Mv i.217.8 , or °kā-saṃstīrṇo Gv 403.12 ; mahān vālikā-rāśir abhūd Gv 134.19 ; (the sun scorches above, and) heṣṭā tapati vālikā Mv iii.185.18 ; taptā vālika yā śarīri nipatī LV 282.3 ( vs ); taptām ayovālikāṃ pravarṣantaḥ [Page478-b] 307.1 (prose); vālikā-varṣa-(= Pali °vassa, a rain of sand , as a plague) -Suvarṇi-(see Suvarṇin )-bhayāny apanayanti Gv 119.15 ; in all the above text vālikā, usually with no v.l. ; in Divy 165.14 mss. bālikā, ed. em. bālukā; in Vaj. , Pargiter ap. Hoernle MR 189.11 f. thrice vālikāḥ for Müllerʼs ed. 39.4 f. vālukāḥ, but in 189.13, 14 vālukāḥ as in Müller .
sand
Vālikā (feminine) [a by-form of vālukā] sand (often sprinkled in connection with festivities to make the place look neat) A I 253; Ja I 210; III 52, 407; VI 64; Vism 420; Dhp-a I 3, 111; Vv-a 160, 305; Pv-a 189. — paritta° sand (on the head) as an amulet Ja I 396, 399. — In compounds usually vālika°. Cf. vālukā. -puñja a heap of sand Ja VI 560. -pulina sand bed or bank Ja II 366; III 389. -vassa a shower of sand Pj II 224.
(fem, fem) sand sand