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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    ☞ p. 70, col. 1.
    avakoṭimaka , adj. (= Pali okoṭ°), deformed, mis-

    shapen; so Tib. acc. to Speyer, byad (on i.280.3 byed)

    ṅan po; the precise mg. in Pali is disputed; Av i.280.3

    and ii.152.10, in phrase durvarṇo durdarśano ava°; in Pali

    only in corresp. phrase dubbaṇṇa duddas(s)ika oko°. But

    mss. of Av avahoṭimako or °ḍimako, and in ii.152.10

    Speyer adopts the latter, stating that it is also written

    so in the Ratnāvadānamālā version of the same story.

    It seems that it should be the same as the Pali word,

    which is well attested. Yet I think the form with h is

    supported by Laṅk 27.4, mss. uhātrimā, ed. em. uhoḍimā,

    and 33.15, text ahoḍimā, most mss. uho°; both initially

    in anuṣṭubh lines, where avaho° could be read as a stan-

    dard hypermetric type, or u- could stand for ava- (cf.

    § 3.55, ukirati); Tib. cited as ṅan paḥi mi, miserable

    man, in Suzuki, Index, which attributes to Wogihara

    the interpretation ūnendriya (fitting our word).