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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    ☞ p. 86, col. 2.
    ākāṅkṣati, °te (cf. kāṅkṣati, kāṅkṣā; in Skt. only

    desires, and so app. Pali ākaṅkhati), doubts: Mv i.165.3

    ākāṅkṣamāṇā…vipaṇḍitā sattvā na jānanti…sukhaṃ

    samādhiṃ, creatures that are doubting and ignorant do not

    know bliss or concentration; perhaps Laṅk 14.19 (pracalita-

    maulin) yad-yad evākāṅkṣasi ahaṃ te tasya-tasyaiva

    praśnasya vyākaraṇena, (O chief of confused ones,) what-

    ever you are doubtful about, by explaining every such question

    to you I (etc.) (otherwise Suzuki); Sukh 99.6 is interpreted

    by the ed. as mākāṅkṣayatha (i.e. mā āk°) mama ca

    teṣāṃ ca buddhānāṃ…and have no doubt both of me and of

    these Buddhas; but it could as well be mā kāṅkṣayatha

    (= kāṅkṣatha). (Also desires as in Skt., e.g. Mv i.158.14.)