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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    ☞ p. 69, col. 2.
    ava-kāma-sevā (see ava), no practice of love: LV

    28.22 (vs; wrongly divided in ed.) dvātriṃśa māsām

    (= māsān, acc. pl.) avakāmaseva (= °vā, n. sg.) hi,

    for she abstained from love-making for 32 months; so Tib.

    renders. There is a v.l. akāma for avakāma but it is

    metrically impossible.