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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    ☞ p. 72, col. 2.
    ava-dhyati or °dhyāti (cf. Pali avajjhāyati, apa°;

    to Skt. dhyāti with ava, in Skt. with different mg.),

    ponders, meditates on: Mv i.9.4 (vs), read with mss. avadh-

    yanto saphalatāṃ karmaṇāṃ (n. sg. m. pres. pple.; v.l.

    °ntā; Senart wrongly em. āvajjanto). Skt. pres. dhyāti =

    dhyāyati; in ava-dhyanto the short a of the penult may be

    MIndic, before a consonant cluster, cf. § 3.34.