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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    p. 27, col. 2.
    anudharma (= Pali anudhamma). Acc. to PTSD,

    Pali dhammānudhamma is used as a distributive or

    intensive cpd., see under 1 anu, the Law in all its parts;

    while Childers understands anudh° as lesser or inferior

    dhamma (against which see Lévi on Sūtrāl. xiii.1 comm.).

    Acc. to CPD anudhamma means (right) method and is a

    ‘hypostasis of anu-dhammaṃ’ (adv., in accordance with

    dhamma). In BHS (as also in Pali, e.g. Dhp. 20) there is

    some evidence suggesting that dharmānudharma is equiv-

    alent to dharmasya anu°, perhaps the true method of the

    law or the like: Bbh 284.1 na pratipadyante dharmasyānu-

    dharmam, they do not attain (? practise) the anudh° of the

    dh°; 197.16 dharmasyānudharmaṃ pratipadyamānasya

    (sc. Bodhisattvasya; not agreeing with dharmasya, which

    depends on anudh°); Gv 383.5 dharmasya cānudharmaṃ

    pratipadye, and I attain (? practise) the anudh° of the dh°.

    Without dharma in the context, we find anudharma-cārin

    Divy 617.16 (°riṇī, f.), anudharma-praticārin Mvy 1123

    (°rī). So we should probably interpret all cpds. of dhar-

    mānudharma-, which usually parallel the like cpds. in

    Pali: dharmānudharma-cārin Dbh 32.21; °rma-pratipatti,

    attainment (? practice) of the anudh° of the dh° Mvy 1801

    (mss. erroneously omit dharma after anu; em. Kyoto

    ed.); Dbh 33.29; Bbh 204.7; KP 9.2; LV 32.16; °rma-

    pratipanna Bbh 84.4; LV 179.12; 377.14; Mvy 1124.

    In Mvy 9321 are mentioned ṣaḍ anudharmāḥ, after 9320

    ṣaḍ dharmāḥ; so also Bhīk 16b.4 ṣaṭsu dharmeṣu ṣaṭsv

    anudharmeṣu śikṣā; in neither place do I find any clue to

    what the six anudharma (or dharma) are. I have not noted

    any adv. anudharmaṃ (parallel to Pali anudhammaṃ).