vetAlika · masculine
court musician
? vetālika , m. , perh. to be read ( mss. corrupt) for text vaitālika, tālika, Mv iii.113.2 ; 442.8 , in lists of entertainers; mg. ? Skt. vait°, panegyrist , acc. to Monier Williams also conjurer . Cf. the obscure Pali vetāla, °lika.
a court musician
Vetālika [dialect; cf. Epic and Classical Sanskrit vaitālika] a certain office or occupation at court connected with music or other entertainment, a bard. With other terms in list at Miln 331, some of them obscure and regional. Also at Ja VI 277, where explained as "vetālā [read vettāya?] uṭṭhāpake," i.e. those whose duty it is [by vetāla or vetta] to make (people] rise. The explanation is obscure, the uṭṭhāpaka reminds of Buddhaghosa's uṭṭhāpana (under vetāla). Kern misunderstands the phrase by translating "chasing bards away." [BD]: Court bailiff. "All rise!"
【陽】 宮廷歌姬。
(masc, masc) court musician