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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    p. 5, col. 2.
    aṅka-dhātrī , nurse who carries a baby on her hip:

    Mvy 9478; Divy 475.12, defined 13--14: aṅkadhātrīty

    ucyate yā dārakam aṅkena parikarṣayaty aṅgapratyaṅgāni

    ca saṃsthāpayati.Tib. on Mvy paṅ na = aṅka, which it

    seems must be the orig. form, since in India babies are

    carried on the hip. Yet in all other cases the word is written

    aṃsa-dh° (or aṃśa-, in mss. also atsa-), and this seems

    to have had real currency, as shown s.v. For the cliché

    see s.v. kṣīra-dhātrī.