dicant. E. anagāra, taddh. aff. ṭhac(?); scil. vṛtti.
gārikā (= Pali anagāriya or anā°, generally nt.; anagāra
nt. only once, Sn 376, otherwise m. and personal, also
°rika, adj. and m. subst., personal; °rikā not in Pali),
homeless (ascetic) life. In most texts anagārikā (LV 18.8;
101.19; 103.20; Divy 17.17; 37.12; 141.1; Samādh 8.15,
etc.; rare in Mv, ii.69.1 with v.l. °riya), or anāgārikā (Av
i.136.6, so best ms., text ana°; i.234.1, no v.l.; Bbh 26.12;
°kāṃ pravrajyāṃ Bhīk 10b.1), are the regular forms, but
in Mv it is almost always anagāriya as in Pali; this has
not been noted elsewhere. Regularly in acc. sg. °rikāṃ,
°riyaṃ (only once anāgāraṃ [mss., Senart ana°] upetasya
Mv iii.387.1) depending on a form of pra-vraj (rarely of
abhi-niṣ-kram, Mv ii.161.5 ff.), and preceded by abl. (or
in Mv gen.) of agāra, retire from the home to the homeless
life. In this phrase the preceding form is always agārād
in all texts other than Mv, and sometimes there (ii.161.5 ff.;
iii.408.2); in Mv also agārato iii.378.4; agārāto iii.176.2;
agārebhyo i.128.10; read agārasmā, the Pali form, for
agārasthā i.104.8; but most commonly the gen. agārasya
i.322.15; 323.1; ii.117.18, 20; 140.3; 271.8; iii.50.11--12;
213.2--3.