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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    ☞ p. 81, col. 1.
    aśleṣaka , adj., applied to colors: °kai raṅgaiḥ Mmk

    61.14; 68.8; 74.22; °kair varṇaiḥ id. 289.11; 304.15;

    699.17; 702.6; °kair varṇakaiḥ 318.7; 322.20; 567.25;

    perhaps not bound or mixed (with foreign substances),

    pure; so apparently Lalou, Iconographie p. 30, l. 3,

    couleurs franches; she cites Tib. (78.24) as chon (read

    surely tshon) ma ḥdres, unmixed color.