covered, obstructed; always in comb^n. āvuta nivuta ophuṭa (oputa ovuta) DN.i.246 (T. ophuta, vv.ll. ophuṭa & opuṭa); MN.iii.131 (T. ovuṭa); Mnd.24 ovuṭa, variant reading SS ophuṭa); Cnd.365 (ophuṭa, variant reading BB oputa; SS ovuta); DN-a.i.59 (oputa) Snp-a.596 (oputa = pariyo-naddha); Mil.161 (ovuta).

a difficult, but legitimate form arisen out of analogy, fusing ava-vuta (= Sk. vṛta from vṛ; opp. *apāvuta P. apāruta) and ava-phuṭa (Sk. sphuṭa from sphuṭ;). We should probably read ovuta in all instances