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अघनिष्ठ (aghaniSTha)

 
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
aghaniṣṭha, doubtless understood as sky-based (see agha, 1), a class of gods: Mvy 〔3107〕, where it follows akaniṣṭha, of which it is surely nothing but a folk-etymological distortion. So Wogihara, Lex. It occurs in no other of my texts unless in Bbh
Wogihara reads so in 〔62.6〕 and 〔68.5〕
actually it is read only in the latter place by one of the two mss. (which reads aniṣṭha in the former place), while the other ms. reads akaniṣṭha both times. Wogiharaʼs suggested interpretation, and those he quotes from Yaśomitra and Chin., seem to me fantastic and worthless. Cf. lokaniṣṭha.