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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    ☞ p. 60, col. 1.
    abhūtvā-śraddhā (cpd.; ed. prints as two words),

    belief in (coming into existence of something) after not

    having been: yadi…°ddhā (if one accepts that belief),

    vijñānānāṃ…utpattir abhaviṣyad Laṅk 41.6; in Laṅk

    40.14 read (ye kecin…śramaṇā vā brāhmaṇā) vā bhūtvā-

    śraddhā(ḥ), as Bhvr. cpd., who cherish a belief in (existence

    of something) after having been, i.e. in persistence of (real)

    existence (text °vābhūtvā śr°, i.e. vā abh°, and so Suzuki).