byappatha
Byappatha，[so for byappattha; according to Kern，Toev．s．v．the word is a distortion fr．*vyāpṛta （for which usually P．vyāvaṭa） of vy+ā+pṛ3，pṛṇoti to be busy or active] busy，active．Thus Kern，but the trsln is not satisfactory．It occurs only at 2 passages; Vin．IV，2，where combd with vācā，girā，vacībheda，and meaning “mode of speech，＂ and at Sn．961，where it has the same meaning & is referred by Nd1 472 to a mode of speech & expld by SnA 572 by vacana．Thus the derivation fr．pṛ with vyā° can hardly be claimed to be correct for Bdhgh’s conception of the word; to him it sounded more likely like vy+ā+patha （cp．cpds．vacana-patha & vāda-patha），thus “way of speaking．＂ （Page 492）