in a poor condition; stricken by hunger; where food is scarce; where survival is difficult.

…to be abandoned in favour of duhitika being another spelling of dvīhitika hard to get through (q.v.), to be compared are the vv.ll. of the latter…

see duhitika.

…druha, druh, see duhana & duhitika

…which is even suggested by vv.ll. at SN.iv.223 as dūhitika duhitika (q.v.). Dve & Dve;

du-īhitika, of du¹ + īhati