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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    ☞ p. 70, col. 1.
    avakrāmati, °kramati, °krāmayati, o-kr°, ukr° ,

    § 3.54 (Pali avakkamati, okk°; in Skt. in this sense only

    of entering the womb, conception; so Caraka, pw 2.111;

    so LV 39.8 kukṣāv avakrāmeyaṃ; Mv i.205.5 etc.), enters

    (a condition or state): Gv 460.3 (see s.v. -avakrāma) gdve.

    avakramitavyaḥ; LV 180.6 sattveṣu ca mahākaruṇām

    avakrāmati sma; in Mv i.51.3 (prose) okrami (aor.) has

    as its subject, not goal, mahākāruṇaṃ (sattveṣu), great

    compassion entered into him (gen.); yakṣagraho ukrami

    (§ 3.54) teṣa kāye SP 95.8 (vs); enters into, realizes (dharma,

    true religion; cf. Pali dhammassa avakkanti, see CPD),

    dharmam avakrāntaḥ MSV iii.62.11; middham (sleep)

    avakrānto Divy 579.20; avakrāmayati, formally caus.,

    could by a forced interpretation be taken to mean allows

    (e.g. compassion, or sluggishness) to enter (into himself),

    but prob. more realistically to be taken as meaning the

    same as the simplex, enters into (a state): LV 400.14

    (prose) mahākaruṇām avakrāmayati, and in same context

    Mv iii.318.15 °ṇāṃ okrāmetvā; RP 56.17 styānamiddhaṃ

    nāvakrāmitavān, and similarly 57.11; note close resem-

    blance to passages using the simplex, above.