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vaṇīpaka , (only Mv ii.100.4 ; 182.4, 9 ; also text iii.254.18 but without ms. support), otherwise van° ( Skt. vaṇīpaka and °yaka, one of them certainly a graphic [Page469-a] variant for the other; I have no doubt that °paka should always be read; in Vikramac. MR 29.35 all mss. °paka; in BHS °yaka recorded only Divy 83.19 ; cf. Pali vaṇibbaka, AMg. vaṇīmaga, °maya, supporting °paka), beggar, mendicant : sometimes mendicant monk , e.g. Asthisena vanīpaka Mv iii.419.4 ; once used in reference to a snake-charmer, in a way which I do not understand (it suggests snake-charmer as another mg. of the word, perhaps because they are a sort of wandering beggars?), hastatvam āgacche (subject, a nāga, captured by a snake-charmer) vaṇīpakasya Mv ii.182.4, 9 ; usually the last of a quartette, śramaṇa, brāhmaṇa, kṛpaṇa, vanīp° (as recipients of alms), often in a cpd. , LV 430.19 ; Mv ii.100.4 ; iii.41.17 ; 43.8 ; 44.19 ; Jm 15.4 ; Av i.198.11 ; same with omission of kṛpaṇa, Mv i.188.14 (here Senart vanīyakaṃ, but all mss. °pakaṃ); iii.254.18 ; without śramaṇa, brāhmaṇa, but with kṛpaṇa (and usually other near-synonyms) Divy 83.19 (vanīy°); 319.4 ; Jm 105.14 ; alone, Divy 414.18 ( v.l. °pagaḥ); Jm 7.10 .