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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    ☞ p. 61, col. 1.
    abhyavakāśika , adj. and subst. m. and (?) nt. (from

    prec.; = Pali abbhokāsika; BHS also ābhy°, q.v.; cf.

    also Skt. abhrāvakāśika, which in MIndic would have

    the same form, and which CPD suggests may be the

    historic original, BHS having hyper-Skt. forms; but cf.

    abhyavakāśa, for which no Skt. *abhrā° is recorded),

    (an ascetic) living in the open air, one of the dhūtaguṇa:

    AsP 387.8; Śikṣ 137.1 (contrasted with one who lives in

    a monastery); °kam, n. sg. nt., Mvy 7477, the practice

    of living as a monk in the open air (but see ābhy°, which

    prob. read).