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    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1st ed.)

    p. 10, col. 1.
    ajahat a-jahat (pres. part. fr. rt. with

    a), not dropping or losing (used in compounds).

    —Ajahat-svārthā, f., N. of a rhetorical figure, an

    elliptical use of words in which their original meaning

    is not dropped, as “white ones” for “white horses,”

    “lances” for “men with lances.” —Ajahal-liṅga,

    as, m. (in grammar) said of a noun not dropping its

    original gender, when used like an adjective.

    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (2nd ed.)

    p. 10, col. 1.
    a-jahat mfn. (pr. p.3. -hā), not dropping or losing (in comp.)