vaRika
vaṇika ( perh. hyper- Skt. for Pkt. vaṇiya = next; or, a-extension of Skt. vaṇik, n. sg. treated as ‘stem’, § 15.8 , owing to its use as stem in composition; acc. to Senart i.367 MIndic vaṇi (= vaṇij) plus -ka; the parallel *bhiṣaka there cited is a false form; SP 292.11 , vs , reads bhiṣaṭka without v.l. , and *bhiṣaka would be metr. impossible), merchant : vaṇika-śreṣṭhi-bhūtena Mv i.1.8 (prose).