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

    p. 1311, col. 1.
    an-avarāgra mfn. without beginning or end (?), Divyāv.

    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    p. 21, col. 2.
    anavarāgra , adj. (corresp. to Pali anamatagga, AMg.

    aṇavadagga, aṇavayagga, and prob. hyper-Skt. for the

    latter; see CPD for theories about this doubtful word),

    probably understood as without end or beginning; Tib. thog

    ma daṅ tha ma med pa, interpreted CPD as without top

    and bottom, but it may, and probably does, mean without

    beginning and end; commonly ep. of saṃsāra and its

    constituents: °grasmiṃ saṃsāre Mv i.282.6; ii.94.1; 188.13;

    237.9; iii.26.10; 90.2; °gro saṃsāro Divy 197.15; °gre

    jātisaṃsāre Śikṣ 170.2; mayā 'navarāgrasya jātijarāmara-

    ṇaduḥkhasyāntaḥ kṛta iti LV 351.17; 377.3, 6; anavarāgra-

    jātijarāmaraṇa-saṃsāra- Mv i.34.7; in Mv ii.419.7 mss.

    anavarāgre (as subst.? Senart em. °gra-, perhaps rightly)

    jātijarāmaraṇasaṃsāra-; as separate adj. with similar

    cpds. Mv iii.67.10; 281.6; cpd. with śūnyatā, Mvy 943;

    Dharmas 41.