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Ganthika 71 Gata
-tthana (for ganthikatthana ?) the place of the block
(i. e. of execution) J 111.538 ; (reads ganthi-ganti-tthana)
Vism 248. — bhedaka, in "cora " the thief who breaks the
block " (or rope, knot ?) DhA n.30.
Ga^thika (f.) (freq. spelled gandika, q. v.)=ganthi, viz.
I. a knot, a tie DA 1.199 (catu-panca-gaijthik'ahata
patta a bowl with 4 or 5 knots, similarly ani-ganthik'ahata
ayopatta Vism 108 ; but see ani) ; DhA 1.335
a block (or is it
(°jata = ganfhijata knotty part), 394. — 2 .
knot?) Vin 11. 136 (? + pasaka; cp. Vin. Texts HI.144);
V.I 40. Esp. in phrase ganthikar) patimui^citva Vin 1.46 =
II. 213, 215, trsl'' at Vin. Texts III. 286 "fasten the
block on (to the robe) " but at 1.155 " tie the knots."
Also in dhamma-garithika a block for execution J 1.150
(v. 1. gaijdika). — 3. N. of a plant PvA 127. — ucchuganthikS.
sugar cane : see ucchu.
-kasava a yellow robe which was to be tied (or which
had a block .') J iv.446.
GaO^a [a variation of gantha (-i), in both meanings of
( ) swelling, knot, protuberance, and ( )
I 2 the interstice
between two knots or the whole of the knotty object,
i. e. stem, stalk]— i. a swelling, esp. as a disease, an
abscess, a boil. Freq. in similes with ref. to karaa and
kaya. Mentioned with similar cutaneous diseases under
kilasa (q. v. for loci). As Ep. of kaya S iv.83 = A iv.38b,
of karai A hi. 310, iv.289 ; Nd^ on Sn 51 ; also Th 2,
491 (=dukkhata sulaya ThA 288); S iv.64 ( = eja);
Sn 51, 61 (v. 1. for gala) ; J 1.293 ; Vism
360 (°pilaka) ;
DhA III. 297 (gand-a-gandajata, covered with all kinds
of boils); IV. 175; PvA 55. Cp. Av. S 11. 168'. — 2. a
stalk, a shaft, in N. of a plant -°tindu-rukkha J v. 99,
and in der. gaijdika & gandi, cp. also Av. S 11.133'^. —
3. = gari