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    Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 52.
    aṣṭamakālika a. eating (only) at every eighth meal-time.

    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (2nd ed.)

    ☞ p. 117, col. 1.
    aṣṭama—kālika mfn. one who omitting seven meals partakes only of the eighth, Mn. vi, 19.

    Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 532.
    aṣṭamakālika (von a° + kāla) adj. der 7 Mahlzeiten (3 ganze Tage und den Morgen des 4ten Tages) vorübergehen lässt und erst an der 8ten theilnimmt M. 6, 19.

    Böhtlingk Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 141, col. 3.
    aṣṭamakālika Adj. nur jede achte Mahlzeit geniessend.

    Vācaspatyam

    ☞ p. 519, col. 1.
    aṣṭamakālika tri0 aṣṭamaḥ kālaḥ bhojane'styasya ṭhan .
    sārddhadinatrayopavāsānantaraṃ caturthadivase rātrau bhoktari-
    vānaprasthabhede “naktaṃ cānnaṃ samaśnīyāddivā vāhṛtya śaktitaḥ .
    caturthakāliko vā syāt syādvāpyaṣṭamakālikaḥ” manuḥ . “mu-
    nibhirdviraśanaṃ proktaṃ viprāṇāṃ martyavāsināṃ nityam” ityuktyā
    divase vāradvayabhojanasya vidhānāt sārddhatridine saptāhāra-
    matītya caturthadivase rātrau bhojane hi tathātvaṃ bhavati .