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

    p. 1311, col. 2.
    an-ābhogá mfn. having or offering no enjoyments, TĀr.

    Schmidt Nachträge zum Sanskrit-Wörterbuch

    p. 32, col. 3.
    anābhogá Adj. aller Genüsse bar, Taitt. Ār. 1, 8, 5.

    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    p. 22, col. 2.
    an-ābhoga (see ābhoga and sābhoga), (1) adj.,

    effortless: crucial is Dbh 67.10 ff., where a boat, before it

    reaches the open sea, is sābhoga-vāhana, traveling with

    (human) effort; when it reaches the open sea it is anābho-

    gavāhano vātamaṇḍalīpraṇīto, traveling without effort, borne

    along by a tornado, and goes in a single day farther than it

    could go in a hundred years by all effortful traveling

    (sarvasābhogavāhanatayā, i.e. by rowing etc.). So, by

    the knowledge of the Omniscient (sarvajñajñānena),

    because this knowledge is effortless (automatic, spontane-

    ous: jñānānābhogatayā), a Bodhisattva gets in a single

    moment farther than he could get in 100,000 kalpas by

    his former effortful activity (pūrvakeṇa sābhogakarmaṇā).

    Again, in Sūtrālaṃkāra ix. 18--19, a Buddha's activities

    proceed without ābhoga, effortlessly, spontaneously, like

    music from instruments that are not being played, or

    jewels that shine without labor. So understand anābhoga-

    buddhakāryāpratiprasrabdaḥ Mvy 411, (a Tathāgata is)

    never ceasing from spontaneous (Tib. Ihun grub pa, self-

    created; not contrived by human labor, Jäschke) Buddha-

    activities, and the same cpd. prefixed to -cakram LV 423.3

    (see apratipraśrabdha); automatic Śikṣ 7.15; °ga-vāhanaḥ

    Bbh 260.18, bringing automatically; mahākaruṇopāyakau-

    śalyānābhogagatena prayogena Laṅk 42.8, by praxis that

    effortlessly (spontaneously) arrives at great compassion and

    skill in devices; sometimes best rendered by impassive (not

    involving or subject to any effort), anābhogaprekṣikayā

    with impassive look Śikṣ 268.1; (see s.v. ābhoga for Dbh

    64.16;) prob. impassive in Bbh 317.3, and 350.12 bodhi-

    sattvānām anābhogo nirnimitto vihāraḥ, which is con-

    trasted with (and higher than) their sābhoga (effortful)

    vihāra (346.14); cf. Lévi, Sūtrāl. i.7 n.7; (2) subst. m.,

    non-effort, impassivity: anābhoge tathā siddhiḥ Mmk

    116.24; svabhāvānābhogābhyāṃ ca vigacchanti Dbh 48.21,

    and they pass away by natural process and without effort

    (na caiṣāṃ kaścid vigamayitā, and no one makes them pass

    away); as one of the samādhy-āvaraṇāni, Dharmas 118,

    see s.v. ābhoga; (3) adverbs, without effort, effortlessly,

    anābhogataḥ Dbh 56.19; Śikṣ 12.1; anābhogena pariniṣpa-

    dyante, are automatically perfected, Dbh 58.9; (4) m., n.

    of a yakṣa: Māy 52.