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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    p. 50, col. 1.
    abhichādayati (nowhere recorded in this sense; orig.,

    clothes, trans.), presents, with instr. of the thing given, acc.

    of recipient; the gift may be garments but very often is

    not: AsP 518.16--17 °yati (svakena ca kāyena…bodhi-

    sattvaṃ); Mv ii.367.17 (vs) daridra sattva paśyitvā

    dhanena abhichādaye; pres. pple., Megh 288.16--17 mahatā

    gurugauravacitrīkāreṇa bhagavantam abhichādayantaḥ,

    presenting…with homage etc. (wrongly Bendall); perf.,

    Gv 332.21--22 sa tān…sarvavastuparityāgair °yām āsa;

    415.3--4 mahāmaṇiratnapadmaśatasahasraiḥ taṃ bhagavan-

    tam °yām āsa; ger. °chādya LV 108.2--3; 159.14; ppp.

    °dita, SP 76.10 jīvitena, presented with life; Mv i.61.1 (with

    garments); iii.278.13 dhanena; Śikṣ 33.7 guṇajñānābhichā-

    ditā(ḥ), presented with knowledge of virtues (wrongly Ben-

    dall and Rouse).