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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    p. 42, col. 1.
    anyavāda- (m. ?; cf. Pali aññavādaka, adj. and n.

    nt.), talking about something else, shuffling and evading the

    question (CPD); in anyavāda-viheṭhana, nt., (a monk's)

    causing annoyance (to the community) by doing this, v.l.

    in Kyoto ed. of Mvy for 8433, text ājñā-viheṭhanam (so

    Mironov without v.l.; Tib., Chin. and Jap. violation of

    commands; for the v.l. the Jap. editor gives the correct

    interpretation, as above); Prāt 505.1, text anyā-vāda

    (-viheṭhanāt), which Finot would em. to anya°; Chin

    ‘si un bhikṣu ennuie les autres en donnant des réponses

    à côté’ (= anya°). The corresp. Pali, Vin. iv. 36.3, 18, 37

    etc., has añña-vādaka, which certainly means what is

    stated above (the context proves it clearly). Mvy ājñā-

    (-vāda) is evidently an ignorant and secondary hyper-

    Sktism, based on a MIndic form of anya-interpreted as

    = ājñā- (cf. § 2.15). It is, however, very curious that the

    text of Prāt reads anyā-with long stem-final ā!