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dhikka - “push’, Āv 12.15 (khila-panhi-dhikkähim)
Cf. Guj. dhiko, dhiko 'hard blow with the fist' (note the initial retroflex). dhijjāiya- "brahmin', Āv 43.16, 43.36
Beside the literal sense the artificial etymological connection with Skt. dvijātika- "lwice-born' is also implied'. phetā- 'stroke', Āv 34.32 (paropparam puya-phetāhim)
The word occurs also in Agastyasimha's Cūrni on the Dasakāliyasutta (ed. by Muni Punyavijaya, Prakrit Text Society Series No. 17) in the following passage (p.105 1. 28): elao singeņa phetřāe va āhanejjā 'a ram may strike with his horn'. Compare Guj. phêt 'a slap (on the face or the back)', with mārvũ 'to strike', with märvito slap' (see Anusamdhān Ip.13). billagira- 'bilva-juice', Āv 41.43 (khauram billagirabhallä vagarasehim listam)
But Deśīnamamālā 6,148 records giri in the meaning bījakośa, and Nisīthacūrņi 2, p.185, has gira = bījakośa (see also Svayambhū’s Paumacariu, Vol. III, p. 311, s.v. giromaya "tiny seed-vessel'). Also Guj. gar 'pulp of a fruit' points to the fact that billagira- means 'pulp of the bilva fruit”. saudi quili', Āv 32.39 (puvesio saudi-majjhe hautho)
saudi- means 'the covering sheet, blanket (etc.) spread over the body from head to the feet'. It has come down to modern Guj. as sod where the phrases sod tani-ne suvũ and sod-mă levű mean 'to lie down with the sod pressed under one's side' and 'to take somebody (e.g. a baby) under such a cover (close to one's body)' respectively. During the winter there is the practice of first spreading the covering sheet fulllength over the bed-sheet and then getting under the former. The story of Cellaņā (Āv II 55,12) has it that while slecping her arm was unconsciously so stretched that it came out of the
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