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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    p. 50, col. 2.
    abhijānāti (= Pali id.), (1) knows by abhijñā, q.v.

    The technical Buddhist meaning of the noun is certainly

    at times associated with the verb, which in Skt. means

    knows in a very general way. The extent to which the spe-

    cial Buddhist sense is present in the verb is often doubtful;

    I list a few cases where it seems pretty clear: abhijānāmi

    SP 200.8 (Burnouf and Kern, remember, I think wrongly);

    Mv i.57.7, 12; Gv 446.14; Vaj 34.20. The translation

    remember, also given CPD, is due to the fact that events

    of the past are often referred to; but I think the Buddha

    (the usual subject in such cases) knows them by super-

    natural knowledge or so-called intuition (abhijñā, q.v.),

    not by memory; (2) recognizes (as a duty), takes upon

    oneself (a vow or undertaking); so also in Pali, e.g. MN

    i.80.5 (definitions in Pali dictionaries including CPD

    hardly do justice to this mg.): LV 254.2 abhijānāmy

    ahaṃ…ekam evādvitīyaṃ kolam āhāram āhartum, I

    undertake to allow myself to eat only a single kola as food;

    similarly LV 255.8, 15.