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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    ☞ p. 80, col. 2.
    (aśokāhvaya ,) with ‘hiatus-bridging m’ (m.c.) aśoka-

    m-āhvaya, adj., of auspicious name: voc. °ya Mv i.68.3

    (vs); so mss., addressed by Kāśyapa to Aniruddha; for

    this mg. of aśoka cf. aśoka-bhāṇḍa(ka). Senart em.

    aśeṣam āhvaya, but does not indicate how he interprets

    āhvaya, which in both Skt. and Pali (avhaya) is used

    chiefly at the end of cpds. meaning having… (as)

    name.