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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    ☞ p. 64, col. 2.
    ayoniśa , adj. (abstracted from ayoniśo-manasikāraḥ,

    cpd., see next, secondarily analyzed as °śo (n. sg.) mana-

    sikāraḥ; hence nonce-form °śena, instr.), not fundamental

    or thoroughgoing, superficial: LV 419.17 (vs) saṃkalpakal-

    pajanitena ayoniśena (so best mss., Lefm. °sena; sc.

    manasikāreṇa?; no noun expressed, unless saṃkalpa,

    q.v., be taken as a separate instr.) bhavate avidyā etc.