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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    p. 51, col. 2.
    abhināmayati, (1) inclines (trans.), makes (the heart)

    incline (to something, dat.); cittam abhināmayati LV

    394.6, 12; cittam abhināmayitum (nivāsāya, towards

    remaining) Jm 132.11; (2) turns away (trans.), distorts:

    dharmabhāṇakasyārthāny akathām abhināmayati Śikṣ

    96.10, distorts the preacher's meaning into a wrong statement;

    (3) prepares (food): khādyabhojyam abhināmayet Mv

    i.325.8; (4) causes to pass, passes, spends (time), = atinā-

    mayati, q.v., for which this may be only a graphic corrup-

    tion (t and bh often confused): LV 369.11 (a week, saptarā-

    traṃ); kausīdenābhināmitam Divy 464.20, 25, (time, or

    life: subject unexpressed) was spent in idleness, cf. the

    absolute use of atināmayati, q.v.; MSV i.18.16; but

    i.72.18 and 73.3 (same passage as Divy above) °tināmitam.