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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    ☞ p. 72, col. 1.
    avadya-bhīru , dreading (and shunning) reproach

    (blame, evil, sin), ep. of the family into which a Bodhisattva

    is born in his last existence: Mv i.198.1; ii.1.11; LV 24.4.

    All these are forms of the same passage; in LV text anava-

    dya-, with v.l. avadya-; in Mv ii.1.11 Senart reads anava-

    dya, tho he recognizes at i p. 532 that the corrupt mss.

    point rather to avadya-, which he reads with mss. at

    i.198.1. The reading avadya- is confirmed by Tib. on LV

    kha na ma tho bas (= avadya, see Das s.v.) ḥjigs pa

    (= bhīru). Note the noun avadya-bhī RV 10.107.3 (isolated).