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यावदेव (yAvadeva)

 
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
yāvad-eva, adv. (= Pali id., PTSD s.v. yāva), merely, just simply: LV 〔58.10〕 (the king gave all sorts of gifts) yāvad eva bodhisattvasya pūjākarmaṇe, just simply to do honor to the Bodhisattva
in Śikṣ repeatedly after anyatra (1, q.v.) following a negative expression: 〔127.18〕 na raktaḥ paribhuṅkte anyatra yāvad eva kāyasya sthitaye, he does not eat greedily on the contrary, merely to keep the body alive (cf. Pali yāvad-eva imassa kāyassa ṭhitiyā MN 〔i.10.10〕 etc.)
〔252.9〕 anyatra yāvad eva sa puruṣo syāt, on the contrary, this man would simply be
〔254.6, 19〕.