vAsIcandanakalpa
vāsī-candana-kalpa , adj. (= AMg. vāsī-candaṇakappa, see below), a stock ep. of an arhat; in effect, indifferent ; only in a cliché list of such epithets, always following (and in every case but one immediately) samaloṣṭakāñcana and ākāśapāṇitalasamacitta, with other similar terms: Divy 97.26 ; 180.26 (here v.l. vālī°); 240.25 ; 282.2 ; 551.19 ; MSV ii.131.3 ; Av i.96.7 ( ms. ); 104.7 ; 207.12 , etc. ; acc. to Ratnach. , indifferent alike to being cut with a hatchet ( Skt. vāśī, also written vāsī) or anointed with sandalwood paste ; this is clearly the Jain traditional interpretation, misunderstood by Jacobi, SBE 45 , p. 99, note 1 ; in transl. of Kalpa Sūtra 119 Jacobi renders vāsī by [Page479-b] ordure , and Charpentier on Uttarādh. 19.92 also thinks it means something ill-smelling, in contrast with sandal; they both agree with the Jain tradition in understanding kalpa as indifferent to (pairs of opposites, like Skt. sama); perhaps this is right, but if so I know of no parallel for it; ordinary usage, both Skt. and MIndic , would make it mean like, resembling … ; in this case, possibly, resembling a knife or sandalwood in ‘coldness’, dispassionate nature?. So in effect Feer, Av transl. p. 14 , il était devenu froid comme le sandal ; but Feer omits vāsī!