apaskāra

to others, the root of the knee. [In the verse of the Śiśu-

pālabadha 18. 46. Mallinātha explains the words āpaskārāt

by gātramūlamāpaskāram . āpaskārādā mūlāt, when the

word would not be apaskāra m., but āpaskāra n. Valla-

bhachakravartin, however, explains apaskāro jānumūlam,

and in the same manner Vallabhabharatasena and Chandra-

śekhara (the reading of the E. I. H. Ms. No. 79 ayaskāro

or apaskaro in the commentary of the two latter being re-

futed partly by the reading of the verse in other Mss., partly

by the metre itself); and Vallabhagaṇi in his comment on

the word gātra in Hemach.'s Abhidh. 4. 294. (= v. 1228),

after having quoted the verse in question continues: lūna-

gātrasya cchinnapūrvakāyasya . āpaskārāt . ā jaṅghāmūlāt . a-

paskāraṃ yāvacchinnasyetyarthaḥ.] E. kṝ with apa, kṛt aff. ghañ

and āgama suṭ.