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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    p. 23, col. 1.
    an-āyūha , adj. (Pali id.; see also anāvyūha), effort-

    less; free from exertion or striving; usually cpd. with a-

    niryūha, without abandonment, riddance, giving up; the

    two terms together seem clearly to be opposites, and to

    mean about the same as a-pravṛtti, a-nivṛtti, without

    activity or abstention from it (so Suzuki, ‘neither taking

    birth nor…going out’, on Laṅk 115.11--12; 196.3).

    However, Tib. (e.g. on LV 423.4 and on Laṅk) renders

    an-āyūha by blaṅ ba med pa, or the like, and aniryūha

    by dor ba med pa, which seem most naturally to mean

    without (intellectual) acceptance or rejection respectively;

    La Vallée Poussin, note on MadhK 517.20, see āvyūhati,

    gives his Tib. versions as mi len and mi ḥdor (which are

    equivalent to the above), and equates ā(v)yūha and

    nir(v)yūha with Skt. samāropa and apavāda. I find no

    support in BHS texts for this interpretation; whether the

    Tib. terms must necessarily be so understood I do not

    venture to say. Without aniryūha the word occurs Gv

    17.13 anāyūha-sarvajñatā-bhūmi-gagana-vīryāḥ (of Bo-

    dhisattvas); anāyūhān 25.19 (id.), effortless, unstriving (in

    complimentary sense, like anābhoga; substantially un-

    participating, impassive); anāyūhaviyūho (read with 2d ed.

    °viyūha-, cpd. with next, if not niryūha-)-gatir bodhi-

    sattvānāṃ kāyacittāsaṃpravaṇatayā (see asaṃpravaṇa)

    525.11, the course of B.'s is free from effort and striving,

    because they are not interested in (their own) bodies or

    minds; anāyūhāniryūha- LV 423.4 (-cakram); °ham ani-

    ryūham (dharmacakram) LV 436.13; apratiṣṭhānāyūhāni-

    ryūha(ḥ) LV 424.7--8 (tathāgataḥ); anāyūhāniryūhāḥ

    (sarvadharmāḥ) Laṅk 115.11--12; °hāniryūha-tā (sc. sarva-

    dharmāṇām) ŚsP 283.3 (text by error °niyūhatā).