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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    ☞ p. 76, col. 2.
    avaskandanā (cf. Skt. avaskandana, nt., accusation,

    legal attack; to ava-skand-, attack, usually in military

    sense), (verbal) attack; injurious speech; °skandanā is read

    for °sphaṇḍanam in a text parallel to Śikṣ 172.1 idam

    agraṃ pāruṣyāṇāṃ yad utāryāṇāṃ avasphaṇḍanam, see

    Bendall's note p. 408; Tib. gnod pa, injure.