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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    p. 25, col. 2.
    aniṣṭhā-pada , apparently intended at Laṅk 180.17

    (text anadhiṣṭhāpada) and 227.4 (text aṣṭāpada); Tib.

    thug pa med paḥi gnas. Suzuki transl. inexhaustible vows;

    rather, unlimited terms; S. uses the same transl. for

    niṣṭhā-pada, q.v. It seems, indeed, that these two

    formally opposite expressions, unlimited term and funda-

    mental term, are virtual synonyms. Cf. Dbh 17.9, where

    each of the 10 niṣṭhā is specifically said to be aniṣṭhā

    (the trick seems to lie in different uses of niṣṭhā: the

    fundament, basis is said to be without end or limit, end

    being also a mg. of niṣṭhā).