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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    p. 3, col. 2.
    akṣudrāvakāśa (= Pali akkhuddāvakāsa), of fine

    (not inferior) appearance. Almost always follows prāsādika

    and darśanīya; all virtual synonyms, applied to women

    and less often to men and children: Mv i.196.20; 352.15;

    ii.422.1, 7 (boy); 432.14; iii.35.18 (man); 153.16 (here

    prāsādika is lacking); 218.11; 377.12; 404.17 (an infant

    boy). In Mv i.197.16 (not accompanied by the other adj.)

    said of the family (kulam) in which a Bodhisattva is

    born; but perhaps this is an erroneous reading, or if cor-

    rect means rather possessing no small scope, range, sphere

    of activity or opportunity (with the meaning of avakāśa

    normal in Skt., Pali, and BHS). This latter, at least, is

    clearly meant by Mv ii.1.7, a parallel passage, which

    reads akṣudrāvacaraṃ instead of this. A third parallel,

    LV 23.12, reads akṣudrānupaghāti, which surely means

    not petty and not injurious (so Tib., phran tshegs med ciṅ

    gnod par byed pa med pa yin), not ne frappe pas ceux

    qui ne sont pas méchants (Foucaux).