SvAsopavAsaka
? śvāsopavāsaka , or °ika , adj. , should, I think, be read in Mv iii.71.16 (prose; Senart sopavāsika) and 83.11 ( vs ; Senart māsopa° with mss. ). At least the cpd. must begin śvāsa°, and Senart ʼs interpretation cannot be accepted. In description of wretched victims of ogresses, after imprisonment and torment: 71.16 ( mss. ) susvāsopavāsikānāṃ ( v.l. sāsopa°) dīrghakeśanakhaśmaśrūṇāṃ (pūtikhaṇḍavasanānāṃ, em. ) etc. ; in 83.11 ( vs ) text with mss. māsopavāsikānāṃ ( v.l. °vāsak°; read śvāsopa°) virūḍhanakhakeśaśmaśrūṇām ( mss. virūha°). Our cpd. may mean devoted to sighs, subject to sighs ( cf. upavāsa, Obliegen, sich Hingeben , Schmidt , in Samayamātṛkā 5.82 kalahopavāsair, vyasanopavāsair); or else fasting from (barely able to get) the breath (of life), cf. śvāsaśeṣa, Rājat. , with (nothing but) breath left , BR s.v. śvāsa.