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

    p. 1311, col. 3.
    a-nilambha m. a kind of meditation, Buddh.

    Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

    vol. 1, p. 193.
    anilambha (3. a + nilambha) Name einer Meditation (buddh.) BURN. Lot. de la b. l. 253. 425.

    Böhtlingk Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

    vol. 1, p. 49, col. 1.
    anilambha m. eine best. Meditation (buddh.).

    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    p. 25, col. 1.
    a-nilambha (as if from an unrecorded ni-lambh),

    (1) adj., independent (Tib. on Mvy 619 brten pa med pa);

    as such, except in the next following cpds., only noted

    in Gv; sarvabhavānilambha-jñāna-gocarāḥ Gv 17.13;

    jñāne…anilambhe nirālaye 30.20; others 37.11, etc.;

    (2) as subst., n. of a samādhi, °bha-samādhi-pratilabdho

    SP 424.3, for which Tib. strangely: rluṅ (wind, air) lha

    buḥi (= devaputrasya), (samādhi) of the wind-devaputra,

    or devaputra-wind, as if cpd. of anila! (with what?);

    (3) n. of a kalpa: Gv 446.25. Cf. the following cpds.