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    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (2nd ed.)

    ☞ p. 1317, col. 3.
    a-vyābādha mfn. unobstructed, unimpeded, Mahāvy.

    Schmidt Nachträge zum Sanskrit-Wörterbuch

    ☞ p. 79, col. 1.
    *avyābādha Adj. unbehindert, durch nichts beeinträchtigt, Mahāvy. 69. *

    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    ☞ p. 79, col. 2.
    a-vyābādha , also written °vādha, in MSV i.97.19

    wrongly °vāda, adj. (cf. prec. and next, also vyābādha

    etc.; corresponds to Pali avyāpajjha, avyābajjha), ap-

    parently usually free from injury, inviolable, secure, but

    possibly in some passages free from injuriousness, i.e. not

    given to injuring others, kindly; the Pali equivalent appears

    to be interpreted in the same two ways, but it is not easy

    to distinguish them clearly: Mvy 1508 maitrīsahagatena

    cittenā 'vaireṇā 'sapatnenā 'vyābādhena; to this passage

    corresponds Mv iii.213.13 (cetasā…) avaireṇā 'vyābā-

    dhena (so Senart em., mss. 'vyābaddhena or °rddhena);

    also Dbh 34.(18--)19 (maitrīsahagatena cittena…) avai-

    reṇā 'sapatnenā 'nāvaraṇenā 'vyābādhena; and in Pali

    DN ii.242.11 (cetasā…) averena avyāpajjhena; the mg.

    uninjurious, kindly might be assumed in SP 288.8 (prose)

    (bodhisattvo…) avyāvādho bhavati, but Kern unmo-

    lested, and similarly Burnouf. Cf. avyābādhya, said of a

    Bodhisattva, Bbh 73.21.