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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    p. 47, col. 2.
    aprati-varṇanīya , in LV 411.10, incomparably

    worthy of praise, in a list of complimentary epithets of

    sounds (śabda), after nirvarṇanīya, praiseworthy. I believe

    that aprati- must be recognized as used in Skt. as prior

    element in cpds. in this sense, as e.g. in aprati-cakra

    (pw) and aprati-karman (commonly analyzed as a-prati-

    karman; but there is no record of any *pratikarman in

    the sense of a corresponding action, and the immediate

    constituents seem to me clearly aprati and karman).

    Tib. zla med pa, matchless, for aprati.