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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    ☞ p. 56, col. 2.
    ? abhiṣajjana , nt. (to Skt. abhi with saj or sañj, in

    a sense not recorded in Skt., but cf. Pali abhisajjati, a,

    CPD), perh. sticking fast (together), said of the teeth

    during the process of eating: Gv 401.10 (asyāhāraṃ

    paribhuñjānasya na)…paryavanāho (q.v.) vābhiṣajjanaṃ

    (printed vā bhi°) vā; but 2d ed. vātisarjanaṃ; what

    atisaṛjana would mean in this context is obscure; ex-

    cessive emission (spitting out of food)?