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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    ☞ p. 69, col. 1.
    alpāsvāda , adj. (subst. ? = Pali appassāda), affording

    little pleasure, in Mv i.121.4 perhaps subst., a sort of

    kenning for kāma (the Pali word is often an epithet of

    kāma, and sometimes seems to be a substitute for it).

    The Mv line (vs) is corrupt; perhaps alpāsvāda-nibaddho

    (or read °dhā?) means kāma-nibaddho; in the second

    half line surely lokā vartenti dāruṇāḥ is intended, rather

    than Senart's em.; as adj., e.g. Divy 41.26 (mahāsamudro)

    'lpāsvādo bahvādīnavas.