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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    p. 23, col. 1.
    anārja (= Skt. anārya; perhaps semi-Skt. based on

    MIndic aṇajja [AMg., beside aṇāriya]; possibly influenced

    by confusion with ārjava?), (adj., ignoble, base, evil;)

    subst., wickedness: sarve anārjaṃ parivarjayāmaḥ Mv

    ii.79.3 (text °jeyāmaḥ, formally possible, § 29.33, but

    metrically bad, unless e be short, § 3.65); the corresponding

    Pali has anariyaṃ (Jāt. iv.53.8 °yaṃ parivajjemu sabbaṃ).