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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    p. 25, col. 2.
    aniśrita (= Pali anissita), unattached, free, independent,

    emancipated (esp. from worldly things): Mvy 2352 = Tib.

    mi gnas pa, without fixed abode, or, mi brten pa, without

    dependence, independent. (Regularly misunderstood by

    older interpreters; correctly Senart Mv i note 456 détaché;

    sans attache aux choses terrestres.) SP 92.7; 276.7, 10;

    279.10; Mv i.167.11 (of Buddha); LV 250.17 (of dhyāna);

    RP 16.3 (of Bodhisattvas); Dbh 24.14 (cited Śikṣ 126.11)

    of the speech of Bodhisattvas (so also of speech in Pali,

    unworldly CPD: SN ii.280.8 = AN ii.51.17 anissitāya,

    AN comm. iii.90.10 vaṭṭaṃ anissitāya, independent of the

    world); Bbh 303.15 aniśrita-dānatā; Gv 472.8 sarvopapatty-

    aniśrita-vihāriṇaś ca; Gv 473.10; in Mv i.165.20, a corrupt

    and difficult passage, read aniśritā(ḥ) with mss.