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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    ☞ p. 87, col. 2.
    ākoṭayati (= Pali ākoṭeti; cf. koṭayati), beats: a

    drum, LV 299.10 (ke cāgatā grahiya bheri yathaiva merur,

    so read) ākoṭyamānu (pres. pass. pple., n. sg. m., with

    merur) gagaṇe sumanojñaghoṣāṃ,…taking a drum, as

    if Mt. Meru (were) being beaten, (a drum) producing very

    pleasing sounds in the sky; Suv 22.2; a gong, gaṇḍir (gaṇḍy)

    ākoṭitā Divy 335.13; 336.11; 337.9; ākoṭyatāṃ gaṇḍī Av

    i.258.9, and similarly ii.87.2; Kv 13.8 (read dharmagaṇḍi-

    kām ākoṭayanti); 36.17 dharmagaṇḍī-m-ākoṭyamānā śrutā;

    hits, knocks on, a stick, Av i.18.8 yaṣṭim ākoṭaya; a door,

    Divy 117.26 dvāraṃ trir ākoṭayati (knocks; Index wrongly

    breaks); MSV ii.80.9 kapālam ākoṭya (cf. kapāla-koṭanī);

    beats (clothes, in washing, cf. Pali ākoṭita-paccākoṭita,

    of robes, misinterpreted PTSD), Prāt 491.8 (purāṇacī-

    varaṃ…) ākoṭayed (text ākoṭh°); suraktākoṭitaṃ

    (…paṭaṃ) Laṅk 363.9; Mvy 9260 ākoṭayet would beat

    (clothes, in washing; follows rañjayet would dye); beats

    or presses (earth) down hard (cf. Pali Jāt. i.264.20), Mmk

    37.21 (pṛthivīpradeśaṃ…) pūrayitvā ca sv-ākoṭitaṃ

    samatalaṃ…kārayet; caulks (a ship), AsP 288.10 nāvam

    anākoṭitām aparikarmakṛtāṃ cirabandhanabaddhām, of

    an unseaworthy ship, that was not caulked or repaired, tied

    to its moorings a long time; 289.7 (nāvaṃ subaddhāṃ

    bandhayītvā) sv-ākoṭitām ākoṭayitvā, having caulked it

    so as to be well caulked; in Śikṣ 66.5 figuratively, of erring

    Bodhisattvas, te tatrākoṭitāḥ svanāmagrahaṇadarśanād

    bhayotpādanārthaṃ, they are then disciplined (perhaps

    originally physically beaten? then, punished; Bendall and

    Rouse, struck at) by seeing their names mentioned (publicly,

    in accusation), in order to make (them) afraid.