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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    ☞ p. 83, col. 2.
    a-samanvāhṛtya (neg. ger. of samanvāharati, q.v.;

    cf. °vāharitvā), without having concentrated the mind (by

    a special effort); in the phrase asamanvāhṛtyā 'rhatāṃ

    (or, 'rhacchrāvakapratyekabuddhānāṃ; or, śrāvakapra-

    tyekabuddhānāṃ) jñānadarśanaṃ na pravartate, without

    having concentrated the mind (by a special effort), the

    insight-into-truth of arhats (etc.) does not operate: Divy

    84.6; 190.8; 313.10 etc.; Av i.244.16; 255.5.