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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    p. 48, col. 2.
    a-pratyanīya , adj. (nonce-form, = vipratyanīka or

    °nīya-ka, qq.v.; based on wrong analysis of the latter

    as containing negative vi-, for which a- is then substituted;

    this is all that is implied by Tib. cited in Burnouf, Lotus

    323 f.; in Pali a-paccanīka is recorded only in the expected

    sense of not opposed, not hostile, CPD), antipathetic, hostile,

    unwelcome: SP 95.7 (vs) apratyanīyāś ca bhavanti loke,

    pūtī mukhāt teṣa pravāti gandhaḥ. (One ms. °nīkāś.)